Feeding the world’s growing population in ways that are effective, ethical and socially just, and protect the natural systems on which all life depends is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. It forms the theme of this book of papers of the 2022 Edinburgh conference of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EURSAFE). [Originally posted at https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/epdf/10.3920/978-90-8686-939-8?role=tab]

A 2022 report which assesses multiple poverty and equity standards in future scenarios with a newly developed integrated assessment model. It was found that climate change mitigation efforts would not greatly hinder poverty alleviation in China, with the poverty headcount under the $3.2/cap/day-threshold being less than 0.3 million people in 2050 in most scenarios. [Originally posted at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-022-01206-y]

A 2021 paper which assesses the climate, energy and industrial strategies proposed in China’s 14th Five Year Plan and their alignment to China’s climate ambition. It offers an account of China’s and the EU’s efforts in boosting their competitiveness in the clean economy in the last five years and highlights what the EU might do to engage China on raising climate ambition and increase its own competitiveness in the clean economy. [Originally posted at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep30273.pdf]

A 2022 study adopts input‒output model to analyze the impact on economy and employment based on accelerated and slow power transition scenarios in China. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674927822000909]

A 2020 study which focuses on China, India, the US, and Australia, which represent 70% of global coal production, and investigates: (1) the local solar and wind capacity required in each coal mining area to enable all coal miners to transition to solar/wind jobs; (2) whether there are suitable solar and wind power resources in coal mining areas in order to install solar/wind plants and create those jobs; and (3) the scale of renewables deployment required to transition coal miners in areas suitable for solar/wind power. [Originally posted at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6c6d/meta]

A 2022 report which examines the impact of coal transitions on the workers, communities, and corporations in several European countries and explores the processes, policies, and programmes implemented to manage the transition. [Originally posted at https://newclimate.org/sites/default/files/2022-11/coal_phase_out_paper_nov_2022.pdf]

A 2019 paper which argues that if managed in the right way, the decarbonisation of the city, adaptation to climate change and building resilience to weather extremes can be planned and implemented in a way which simultaneously improves the wellbeing of all and protects the livelihoods of the most vulnerable. This approach is at the heart of what is known as a ‘just transition.’ [Originally posted at https://www.ccinnolab.org/uploads/media/A%20Just%20Transition%20for%20Hong%20Kong.pdf]

A 2022 book which provides a comprehensive overview of the financing gap that emerging and developing countries face to meet the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris climate goals. It provides detailed country- and region-level analysis of the challenges and opportunities of scaling up sustainable finance and investment and discusses the range of instruments that could be used to reach these climate and development objectives. [Originally posted at https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/scaling-sustainable-finance-and-investment-global-south]

A 2022 report which came after the Green Finance and Development Center at FISF Fudan University, the Center for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London and the Boston University Global Development Policy Center co-hosted a workshop in March 2022 to explore potentials and strategies for the early retirement of coal plants. The workshop assessed the potential for early coal plant retirement, with a focus on China’s role in enabling this transition overseas. The workshop featured presentations on current practices and challenges of early retirement of coal-fired power plants. The workshop also featured a panel discussion on how such early retirement mechanisms could be applied, especially for China’s overseas investments. [Originally posted at https://www.bu.edu/gdp/files/2022/06/GCI_PB_014_FIN.pdf]

A 2021 discussion paper which lays out recommendations to achieve a just economic transitions to become nature-positive. [Originally posted at https://wwfint.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/just_transitions_towards_a_nature_positive_economy_summary_1.pdf]

A 2020 report which provides regular assessments of overall employment generation along the renewable energy value chain. [Originally posted at https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2020/Feb/IRENA_Transition_jobs_2020.pdf]

A 2022 project report which aims to to examine the strategy of ecological civilisation in China and whether, how, and to what extent it is designed and pursued in practice as a form of 'just transition'. [Originally posted at https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/just-transitions-on-the-ground-ecological-civilisation-in-urban-china/]

A 2017 study which provides an overview of different 'just transition', energy transformation and climate justice discourses, presents a set of just energy transition principles and applies them to evaluate climate policies of 12 Global South countries. [Originally posted at https://www.brot-fuer-die-welt.de/fileadmin/mediapool/blogs/Fuenfgelt_Joachim/just_energy_transition_in_global_south_final.pdf]

A 2021 study which aims to analyze the energy transition from the following perspective: that is over-all to show that its trajectory is complex and dependent on the action of several actors. [Originally posted at https://www.industriall-union.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/2021/Energy/sr_energy_transition_en_v13.pdf]

A 2021 study which calls for more nuanced and longer-term perspectives of social injustice that emerge in the process of energy transitions in authoritarian regimes. [Originally posted at https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/178102/3/Revised%20Manuscript.pdf]

A 2021 study which reveals continued growth in Asia’s coal sector even after the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015 due to financing by banks and investors operating in the region. [Originally posted at https://responsibank.id/media/497354/a-future-without-coal-banking-on-asias-just-energy-transition.pdf]