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Finnish Dairy Farmers’ Perceptions of Justice in the Transition to Carbon-Neutral Farming
A 2022 study which elucidates how to shift to carbon-neutral agriculture in such a way that dairy farmers perceive this systemic change as justified and acceptable. The results indicate that from the farmers' perspective, three key justice issues need consideration: 1) profitability of farming, 2) blaming of farmers, and 3) use of agricultural peatlands. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016722000225]
Streams, Windows and Policy Entrepreneurship: Analysing the Agenda-Setting and Policy Formulation of the EU’s Just Transition Fund
A 2020 research which focuses on analysing the policy process of the 'just transition' fund during the stages of agenda-setting and policy formulation. [Originally posted at https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/10500]
Regional Sustainability Transition Through Forest-Based Bioeconomy? Development Actors’ Perspectives on Related Policies, Power, and Justice
A 2020 study which explores how the forest bioeconomy discourses are downscaled in the development of the forest peripheries in East and North Finland. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934122000879]
Just Green Transition – Key Concepts and Implications in the Nordic Region
A 2022 discussion paper which is a based on a literature review of the just green transition in a Nordic, European and OECD setting, via the lens of three interrelated dimensions within this concept: transition, green economy and social justice. [Originally posted at https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1691594&dswid=9984]
Farming on the Margins: Just transition and the Resilience of Peripheral Farms
A 2022 study which analyzed farmers’ capacities for transformation in a peripheral context in Finland using the concept of 'just transition'. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422422000478]
License to Heat: A Just Transition to Post-Oil Heating of Detached Houses in Finland
A 2021 project report in which the team worked on the 'just transition' to post-oil heating project for 12 weeks. The team went through the course design process, starting with a research phase, identifying the different needs of the stakeholders involved and mapping the systems to gain a deeper insight into the problem context, and then finding solutions, from a user perspective, with behavioural concerns. [Originally posted at https://dfg-course.aalto.fi/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/License-to-Heat-Final-Report-1.pdf]
Building Capacities and Strategies of Trade Union Involvement in Shaping a Just Transition Towards a Sustainable and Decarbonised Industry
A 2022 report which focuses on decarbonisation initiatives involving trade unions in the following four industrial sectors in Europe: automotive, energy, extractive and energy-intensive. [Originally posted at https://news.industriall-europe.eu/documents/upload/2022/5/637878700440463393_IVA_GeneralReport_TUandDecarbonisation_Final.pdf]
Which States Will Lead a Just Transition for the Arctic? A DeePeR Analysis of Global Data on Arctic States and Formal Observer States
A 2022 study which aims to gauge which Arctic Council states are most likely to provide leadership in the global energy transition. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378022000188]
Transition Towards Long-Term Sustainability of the Finnish Energy System
A 2018 dissertation describes the meaning, potential elements and impact of a transition towards the long-term sustainability of the Finnish energy system. [Originally posted at https://is.muni.cz/th/qd76s/Master_thesis_Maschlanka.pdf]
A Just Transition from the Perspective of Finnish Peat Entrepreneurs
A 2022 report which studies the attitudes of Finnish peat entrepreneurs towards 'just transition' by investigating the forms of support they would prefer during the green transition. [Originally posted at https://www.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/756310/A_just_transition_from_the_perspective_of_Finnish_peat_entrepreneurs.pdf?sequence=1]
The Transition of Agriculture to Low Carbon Pathways With Regional Distributive Impacts
A 2022 study, based on agricultural sector modeling, which shows how changes in food consumption and land use measures can reduce GHG emissions from Finnish agriculture, and what are the impacts on regional levels of agricultural production, land use, GHG emissions, and farm income. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422422000491]
The Road Towards a Carbon-Free Society
A 2020 report about the collaboration between German and Nordic trade union organisations. The organisations contribute to the national, regional and international discussion on Just Transition by helping to define Just Transition and shed light on structural change triggered by climate policies and the effects and possibilities it will have on labour markets. [Originally posted at https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/stockholm/17520.pdf]
A Fair Climate Policy for Workers Implementing a Just Transition in Various European Countries and Canada
A Just Transition vision and principles from the The Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions SAK.
A Socially Just Transition Through the European Green Deal?
A 2020 report from the European Trade Union Institute examining whether the "European Green Deal constitutes a suitable policy framework to combine environmental and economic objectives with the pursuit of social fairness, thus ensuring a just transition towards more sustainable economies and societies.
Just Transition: A Social Route to Sustainability
A report from Social Europe elaborating what ‘just transition’ means—from the concept itself to its outworking on the ground.

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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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