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A Just Recovery Renewable Energy Plan for Africa
A 2021 report which offers a practical opportunity to change the trajectory of energy development, distribution and access. It opens up energy systems to a more democratic process, frees them from the power of transnational corporations (TNCs) and enables people and communities to access sufficient energy. [Originally posted at https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Friends-of-the-Earth-Just-Recovery-Renewable-Energy-Plan-for-Africa-2021.pdf]
Energy Regime Reconfiguration and Just Transitions in the Global South: Lessons for West Africa from Morocco’s Comparative Experience
A 2022 article which argues that the case of Morocco - a country at the forefront of renewable energy development in Africa - provides salient lessons for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in its design and implementation of the West Africa Clean Energy Corridor (WACEC). Focusing on two key dimensions of energy sovereignty, viz: (1) people’s ownership of the energy transition process, and (2) land use, livelihood issues, and environmental footprints, the paper discusses the implications of Morocco’s Noor Ouarzazate (Noor 1) solar project and illuminates the injustices embedded in the process, including their post-colonial ramifications, in order to better grasp the challenges that West Africa must tackle for its energy transition through WACEC to be truly just. [Originally posted at https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/9921597/1_s2.0_S0016328722000349_main_1_.pdf]
Transforming Education for Sustainable Development South Africa Background Paper
A 2021 background paper which considers both: 1) how education can contribute to sustainable development, and 2) how sustainable development can shape quality, relevant education. It also frames the meaning of education broadly, within a lifelong learning framework that includes formal education, technical and vocational education and training, work and learning, as well as social movement and community education and social learning. [Originally posted at https://tesf.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/TESF-South-Africa-Background-Paper-Final_05022021.pdf]
Towards a Theory of Just Transition: A Neo-Gramscian Understanding of How to Shift Development Pathways to Zero Poverty and Zero Carbon
A 2020 article which focuses on the need to better understand how a 'just transition' can shift development paths to achieve net zero emissions and eliminate poverty. [Originally posted at https://www.tips.org.za/just-transition/item/4268-towards-a-theory-of-just-transition-a-neo-gramscian-understanding-of-how-to-shift-development-pathways-to-zero-poverty-and-zero-carbon]
Energy Poverty: Conceptualization and Its Link to Exclusion. Brief Review for Latin America
A 2021 paper which aims to deepen the conceptual discussion of energy poverty and exclusion and the background regarding its measurement, as well as its link with the just energy transition. [Originally posted at https://www.scielo.br/j/asoc/a/ZBHWmN3FZCxVXvHQTmbJCnh/]
Taking Charge of the Just Transition?
A 2021 article which reproduces a transcript from a webinar in which a retrenched coal-miner, a community environmental activist living in the same township and two union officials organizing in the area spell out the challenges and hardships in the way of achieving a 'just transition'. [Originally posted at https://www.southafricanlabourbulletin.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/salb-vol-44-no-3-2.pdf]
Reframing Climate Justice for Development: Six Principles for Supporting Inclusive and Equitable Energy Transitions in Low-Emitting Energy-Poor African Countries
A 2021 report which propose six basic principles to help development funders support inclusive and equitable energy transitions in the poorest countries. [Originally posted at https://www.energyforgrowth.org/report/reframing-climate-justice-for-development/]
4 AFREC Designing the African Energy Transition
A 2019 document which represents the guiding principles for Africa Energy Transition Programme is the vision of the African Energy Commission (AFREC) to launch and implement its continental programme on Energy Transition that will cover all African member states in phases. [Originally posted at https://au-afrec.org/en/resources/publications/designing-african-energy-transition]
Vietnam Country Climate and Development Report
A 2022 report which investigates the following questions: How intensively should it work to adapt to previous and predicted damages caused by climate change, given the uncertainty of global mitigation efforts? How much will it cost to reduce GHG emissions? How can the private sector be mobilized to help achieve Vietnam’s climate goals? Are there trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation investments? Are there trade-offs between economic growth, poverty reduction, and climate action, and how can they be managed? Which sectors and regions should be prioritized? What are the distributional implications of a low-carbon, climate-resilient growth path? [Originally posted at https://reliefweb.int/report/viet-nam/vietnam-country-climate-and-development-report]
Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South
A 2021 book which explores how, in the wake of the Anthropocene, the growing call for urgent decarbonization and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences for energy poverty, justice and democracy, especially in the global South. [Originally posted at https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/9cd2046a-0087-43cf-a52f-06fa9bab622b/9781000397406.pdf]
Climate Change and the Global Inequality of Carbon Emissions 1990-2020
An October 2021 study by the World Inequality Lab detailing the unequal contribution of rich versus poorer countries to greenhouse gas levels. [Originally posted at: https://wid.world/document/climate-change-the-global-inequality-of-carbon-emissions-1990-2020-world-inequality-lab-working-paper-2021-21/]

Hot Reports

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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