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A 2022 scoping paper which explores the human rights dimensions of renewable energy and the energy transition in Kenya. It seeks to serve as a resource for stakeholder engagement and discussion in working towards a human rights-based energy transition in Kenya.
[Originally posted at https://www.humanrights.dk/sites/humanrights.dk/files/media/document/Kenya%20Energy%20Transition%20and%20Human%20Rights%20Scoping_accessible.pdf]
The 2022 report from the United Nations (UN)-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance--an international group of institutional investors with a stated goal of transitioning their investment portfolios to net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
by 2050--reports on the progress.
[Originally posted at https://www.unepfi.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AOA-Progress-Report-2022-3.pdf]
A 2021 article which examines Indonesia’s efforts to realize its vision of energy justice by mobilizing private finance for renewable rural electrification. In particular, it investigates to what extent and in what ways Indonesia has addressed energy justice issues and their social implications.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629620303923?via%3Dihub]
A 2020 report which explores a number of key questions that are central to the discussion on climate action:
1. What are the main economic, political and public policy trends relating to climate action in Ireland, and what are their social implications?
2. What would an ambitious state-led investment strategy in a Green New Deal and 'just transition' consist of?
3. What role does the Irish financial sector play in facilitating or inhibiting the fight against climate breakdown? And what needs to be done to transform private finance in Ireland to ensure that it plays a more supportive role?
[Originally posted at http://trademarkbelfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Financing-a-Just-Transition-in-Ireland-1.pdf]
A 2022 report which shows the scale of financial support provided by commercial banks, development finance institutions and Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) that flowed to the fossil fuel industry in West, Central, East and Southern Africa in the period between 2016, the year in which the Paris Agreement entered into force, and the end of June 2021. In addition, it highlights the private and public-sector financial institutions most responsible for these flows.
[Originally posted at https://priceofoil.org/2022/03/03/fossil-fuel-financing-in-africa/]
A 2020 position paper which is dedicated to fostering a consensus on how to define the concept of 'just transition', supporting the development of tools for taking into account the various dimensions of 'just transition', and promoting all innovations in the realm of financial instruments that may help to bring financing flows in line with the 'just transition'.
[Originally posted at https://financefortomorrow.com/app/uploads/2020/10/Position-Paper_Just-Transition_F4Tpdf.pdf]
A 2020 report which discusses the uncertainties within the coal mining sector in India following the COVID 19 pandemic, highlighting the importance of a just transition for coal mining communities. It provides policy recommendations for new directions in public finance within and outside the energy sector to support job creation and industrial development against the backdrop of an increasingly uncertain coal value chain. [Originally posted at https://www.energyforum.in/fileadmin/user_upload/india/media_elements/publications/20200900_COVID19_Just_Transition/20201004_COVID-19_and_just_transition_in_India.pdf]
A 2018 report which highlights key considerations and sets out how to plan a just transition process, rather than making detailed policy recommendations. This report focuses on progress in the energy sector in BRICS countries and the Next 11 emerging markets, comparing approaches to distill best practice in achieving local objectives. [Originally posted at https://www.sustainablefinance.hsbc.com/carbon-transition/enabling-a-just-transition-to-a-low-carbon-economy-in-the-energy-sector]
A 2019 report in which the ILO provides policy advice, implements projects, and supports the capacities of its constituents in their efforts to turn the environmental challenges facing rural economies into opportunities for sustainable development.
[Originally posted at https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---sector/documents/publication/wcms_437196.pdf]
A 2017 report which examines the current status of the coal transition in Shanxi and proposes recommendations for how reform can be managed to ensure that economic, social and environmental factors are built into the process.
[Originally posted at https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/crossroads-balancing-financial-social-costs-coal-transition-china.pdf]
A 2021 position statement which targets the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and is the outcome of consultative processes with Civil Society Organisations across Africa. The paper highlights the urgent need to advance a just transition to a more equitable and sustainable future for all African people by ending the finance of all new and proposed fossil fuel-based energy, large-scale mining and plantations and large-scale industrial/intensive livestock farming investments and developments. [Originally posted at https://citinewsroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/AfDB_PositionPaper_English.pdf]
A 2019 report which sets out the initial findings of a project designed to identify how the opportunity to connect climate action with positive social impact across the country an be realized, with a regional focus on Yorkshire and the Humber.
[Originally posted at https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/investing-in-a-just-transition-in-the-uk/]
This report 2014 report by Béla Galgóczi of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) uses the Ruhr region as an example of the change from traditional industry-based, resource- and material-intensive economic activity towards a knowledge-based, resource-efficient economy.
[Originally posted at https://labordoc.ilo.org/discovery/delivery/41ILO_INST:41ILO_V1/1268289810002676 ]
This is the fifth edition of the report from the European Commission. This 2022 edition continues to "analyse the scope and size of the Blue Economy in the European Union. It aims at providing support to policymakers and stakeholders in the quest for a sustainable development of oceans, coastal resources and, most notably, to the development and implementation of polices and initiatives under the European Green Deal in line with the new approach for a sustainable Blue Economy."
[Originally posted at https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/156eecbd-d7eb-11ec-a95f-01aa75ed71a1 ]
This document is a letter from the U.S. Government Accountability Office to two U.S. Senators describing the federal programs and tax expenditure support economic adjustment, including objectives, eligibility requirements, beneficiaries, obligations, and expenditures.
(Originally posted at https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-19-85r.pdf ]
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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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