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Making Decarbonization Work for Workers: Policies for a Just Transition to a Zero-Carbon Economy in Canada
A 2018 report which distinguishes between reactive 'just transition' policies, which are intended to minimize the harm to workers of decarbonization, and proactive just transition policies, which are intended to maximize the benefits. If the broad goal of a just transition is to ensure an equitable, productive outcome for all workers in the zero-carbon economy, a mix of reactive and proactive elements is necessary [Originally posted at https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/39435]
Poverty and Inequality Implications of Carbon Pricing Under the Long‑Term Climate Target
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]
What Is the Role of the Regulator and Utility in Ensuring a Just Transition?
A 2022 article which discusses how the energy transition will impact the fuel poor, who should pay for the energy transition and how we can protect the most vulnerable. customers.[Originally posted at https://extra.shu.ac.uk/ppp-online/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/role-regulator-just-transition.pdf]
A “Spatially Just” Transition? A Critical Review of Regional Equity in Decarbonisation Pathways
A 2022 study which identifies that future transition policymaking could benefit from using spatially targeted interventions, and in adopting a whole systems approach. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622001347]
Governance and the Just Transition
A 2021 working paper which explores the systemic changes in governance that could mitigate challenges associated with efforts to promote a 'just transition'. [Originally posted at https://tips.org.za/images/Working_paper_PCC_Governance_and_the_Just_Transition_2021.pdf]
Just Transitions- Cities
A 2022 study which argues that cities and urban areas are particularly relevant in achieving 'just transitions' in response to climate change. [Originally posted at https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/4391/DD_and_JG_JT_cities.pdf]
Intersectionality and Energy Transitions: A Review of Gender, Social Equity and Low-Carbon Energy
A 2020 paper which reviews the academic literature to understand the state of knowledge on how diffusion of low-carbon technologies impacts gender and social equity in intersectional ways. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629620303492]
When Energy Justice Is Contested: A Systematic Review of a Decade of Research on Sweden’s Conflicted Energy Landscape
A 2022 review which findings suggest that there has been little explicit focus on energy justice in the literature on Sweden’s energy system. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622003656]
‘The Reduction of Fuel Poverty May Be Lost in the Rush to Decarbonise’: Six Research Risks at the Intersection of Fuel Poverty, Climate Change and Decarbonisation
A 2022 study which draws on qualitative interviews to distil a set of six risks that inform the development of a research agenda towards a 'just transition'. [Originally posted at https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/63765/1/reduction-fuel-poverty-decarbonise.pdf]
Equitably Ending the Fossil Fuel Era: Climate Justice, Capital, and the Carbon Budget
A 2019 dissertation which makes the moral case for equitably transitioning away from fossil fuels in line with keeping global warming as close as possible to the Paris Climate Agreement’s more stringent target of keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. It argues that we should do so while relying as little as possible on risky and uncertain negative emissions and geoengineering technologies, as doing so might prolong the fossil fuel era and pose grave potential costs both to the present and future generations. [Originally posted at https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/43733]
Social Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies and Their Implications for Inequality
A 2019 paper which synthesizes evidence from the existing literature on social co-impacts of climate change mitigation policy and their implications for inequality. [Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2019.1596873]
Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities: Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production
A 2021 book which builds on an international workshop held between 25 and 27 June 2019 in Jena, Germany. The workshop was hosted by the Junior Research Group “Bioeconomy and Inequalities. Transnational Entanglements and Interdependencies in the Bioenergy Sector”, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). [Originally posted at https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/49529/9783030689445.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y]
Existing Climate Mitigation Scenarios Perpetuate Colonial Inequalities
A 'just transition' requires energy convergence—reducing energy use in wealthy countries to achieve rapid emissions reductions, and ensuring sufficient energy for development in the rest of the world. However, existing climate mitigation scenarios reviewed by The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change do not explore such a transition. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519622000924]
Realising a Just Transition to Gas-Free Heating in the Dutch Social Housing Sector: Integration of Energy Poverty Considerations into Decision-Making
A 2019 thesis which aims to analyse how energy poverty and the heat transition are related in theory and practice, to guide Dutch municipalities and housing associations in incorporating energy poverty considerations in their heat transition decision-making processes for the social housing sector. [Originally posted at https://edepot.wur.nl/524777]
A Critical Exploration of Community Participation for Creating a Low Emission Development Strategy by the Just Transition Unit (JTU) Taranaki, New Zealand
A 2022 dissertation which focuses on Just Transition Management (JTM) theory and how this theory is adapted to the community participation process in Taranaki, and to compare JTM to the theory of Collaborative Planning (CP). [Originally posted at https://researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz/handle/10182/15577]
Economic Resilience in Sustainable Communities: Innovative Approaches in Public Spending to Maximise Local Benefits
A 2021 paper which asks whether it is possible to align the recovery from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the necessity to take climate action with innovative local wealth building approaches, to catalyse enhanced local sustainable development, in particular in rural communities. [Originally posted at http://edepositireland.ie/handle/2262/100592]

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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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