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A Novel Dataset for Analysing Sub-National Socioeconomic Developments in the Indian Coal Industry
A 2021 report which creates a novel dataset comprised of all 459 operational coal mines in India, using multiple Right to Information Act applications (India’s Freedom of Information Act) and then combining this dataset with coal company wise employment factors to estimate direct job numbers at the district level(a subadministrative unit). [Originally posted at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2633-1357/abdbbb/meta]
Equity, Climate Justice and Fossil Fuel Extraction: Principles for a Managed Phase Out
A 2020 paper which explores how to equitably manage the social dimensions of a rapid transition away from fossil fuel extraction. [Originally posted at https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/equity-climate-justice-and-fossil-fuel-extraction-accepted-manuscript.pdf]
Navigating Coal Mining Closure and Societal Change: Learning from Past Cases of Mining Decline
A 2019 paper which assess the existing knowledge base to better understand the economic, social and political consequences of mine closure at the national and subnational scales. [Originally posted at https://cdn.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/navigating-coal-mining-closure-and-societal-change.pdf]
Phasing Out Coal Power Plants Based on Cumulative Air Pollution Impact and Equity Objectives in Net Zero Energy System Transitions
A 2022 report which aims to evaluate the future phase-out of coal generators. The authors optimize for alternative climate policy goals, in addition to air pollution objectives related to the distribution of impacts on the basis of income, race, voting patterns, population density, and National Ambient Air Quality Standards classifications. [Originally posted at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2634-4505/ac70f6/meta]
Contested Justice: Climate Justice Activists’ and Coal Workers’ Interpretations of a Just Transition in the Rhinish Lignite Phase Out
A 2022 thesis which investigates workers’ and climate justice activists’ perceptions of justice in the transition process by looking at the Rhineland region, which has become a key site of the struggle around the future of the lignite industry. [Originally posted at https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9079314&fileOId=9079320]
Aligning Fossil Fuel Production with the Paris Agreement: Insights for the UNFCCC Talanoa Dialogue
A 2018 brief which focuses on how fossil fuel production fits into the process of progressing towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and maps a more ambitious pathway forward, using the three guiding questions of the Talanoa Dialogue: Where are we? Where do we want to go? and How do we get there? [Originally posted at https://newsroom.unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/11_12_13__SEI_Talanoa_Fossil_Fuels.pdf]
Impacts of the Reimagine Appalachia and Clean Energy Transition Programs for Pennsylvania: Job Creation, Economic Recovery, and Long-Term Sustainability
A 2021 study which proposes a recovery program from the COVID-19 pandemic for Pennsylvania that is capable of exerting an effective counterforce against the state’s ongoing recession in the short run while also building a durable foundation for an economically viable and ecologically sustainable longer-term recovery. [Originally posted at https://reimagineappalachia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Pollin-et-al-PA-Final-Report-1-22-21.pdf]
Distributional Impacts of Mining Transitions: Learning from the Past
A 2020 paper which addresses the following questions: 1. What have been the documented distributional impacts of past declines in natural resource extraction, disaggregated by gender and by age? 2. How have distributional impacts been mitigated in the past? [Originally posted at https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/distributional-impacts-of-mining-transitions-1.pdf]
How to Avoid Unjust Energy Transitions: Insights from the Ruhr Region
A 2022 paper which leverages documentary analysis of data across a wide array of sources to test these claims and identify lessons by creating a novel just energy transition framework. [Originally posted at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13705-022-00345-5]
Post-Coal Fantasies: An Actor-Network Theory-Inspired Critique of Post-Coal Development Strategies in the Jiu Valley, Romania
A 2022 paper which seeks to address the question: how were people “brought in” for the production of coal during socialism, how were they subsequently “pushed out”, and how challenging is it now for the Jiu Valley strategy to reassemble a network to support the post-coal transition? [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/7/1022]
Solar Has Greater Techno-Economic Resource Suitability than Wind for Replacing Coal Mining Jobs
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]
Coal, Climate Justice, and the Cultural Politics of Energy Transition
A 2019 article which discusses the entanglements of coal with contentious development agendas in many parts of the world through a climate justice lens that engages the cultural politics surrounding coal and energy transition. [Originally posted at https://direct.mit.edu/glep/article/19/2/149/14931/Coal-Climate-Justice-and-the-Cultural-Politics-of]
A Superfund for Workers
When the Dominion Corporation proposed, on April 1, 2013, to build a liquefied natural gas export facility at Cove Point, Md., right on the Chesapeake Bay, seven hundred people demonstrated against it and many were arrested in a series of civil disobedience actions. But an open letter endorsing the project maintained it would “create more than 3,000 construction jobs” most of which would go “to local union members.” The letter—on Dominion letterhead—was signed not only by business leaders, but also by twenty local and national trade union leaders. [Originally posted at https://ecology.iww.org/PDF/LNS/1115brecher.pdf]
Addressing Polarization: What Works? The Just Transition Task Force
A 2020 case study which aims to identify specific attributes and processes of the Just Transition Task Force that might help depolarize debates over energy and climate issues in Canada. It is one of four that aim to identify “What Works?” when it comes to addressing polarized contexts. [Originally posted at https://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/42487]
Coal Phase-Out and Just Transitions: Lessons Learned from Europe
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]
Power, Agency, and Equity in Decarbonization: A Multi-Scalar Analysis of Just Transition Politics
A 2019 dissertation which explores the political-economic, social, and cultural dynamics of coal plant closures and the emergent grassroots movement to facilitate a 'just transition' for workers and communities who are disproportionately burdened by shifting energy economies. [Originally posted at https://www.proquest.com/openview/5fbacd06b1a0973243f879cee52dde0e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=51922&diss=y]

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Covid-19 and a Just Transition in India's Coal Mining Sector The COVID 19 pandemic hit India hard in early 2020, with negative GDP growth and a surge in unemployment. In the energy sector, coal fired power generation was already under pressure from overcapacity, low electricity demand growth, and increasingly competitive renewables.
Considerations for a Just and Equitable Energy Transition As the energy transition accelerates, it is our responsibility, it is our opportunity, to ensure that in addition to contributing to a healthy planet by replacing fossil fuels with clean energy sources, this is accomplished in a just and equitable manner providing prosperity for all.

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