A 2021 study urges further development of the just transition framework to consider the situation of developing countries; it includes a set of recommendations for action. This was a a collaboration between Climate Strategies and Fedesarrollo (Colombia), Dala Institute (Indonesia) and University of Ghana. [Originally posted at https://climatestrategies.org/publication/incorporating-just-transition-strategies-into-developing-countries-ndcs-and-covid-19-responses-comparing-insights-from-ghana-colombia-and-indonesia/]

A 2020 report from the Danish Trade Union Confederation which outlines a climate proposal based on "a healthy and safe work environment, worker participation, training and education, skills development and job security." [Originally posted at https://fho.dk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20200922-green-transition-compressed.pdf]

A 2020 report which wants to show that managed properly, climate action can be an agenda for change and social justice. The move towards a greener economy will lead to disruptions in some industries. Still, this transition is inevitable for a healthy environment and to avoid the dangers of climate change. [Originally posted at https://publications.pes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/just-transition.pdf]

A 2017 report which reviews the economic and political context of coal mining in South Wales, describing the origins of coal mining, its growth through the industrial revolution and into the inter-war period, its gradual but irreversible decline after the Second World War, and its eventual disappearance in the 1990s. It then examines the pronounced social and community consequences of mining and the closure of coal mines, drawing attention to the role of unionized labour and the role it played throughout the rise and fall of mining in Wales. [Originally posted at https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/end-of-coal-mining-south-wales-lessons-learned.pdf]

A 2017 paper which goes into detail about the various ways in which Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform (FFSR) can be consistent with 'just transition'. [Originally posted at https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/fossil-fuel-subsidy-reform-and-just-transition-integrating-approaches]

A 2017 guide which offers some pointers for initiating a 'just transition' process. [Originally posted at https://bankwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/eight-steps-just-transition.pdf]

A 2015 Guide from the International Labor Organization outlining early and basic principles for Just Transition. [Originally posted at https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/green-jobs/WCMS_824102/lang--en/index.htm]

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 2022 paper which assesses how well national recovery and resilience plans (NRRPs) aim at jointly tackling the social and climate/environmental challenges of recovery from the crisis and the transition to a net zero carbon socioeconomic model. [Originally posted at https://www.etui.org/publications/balancing-objectives-just-transition-national-recovery-and-resilience-plans]

A 2018 book which aims to present the One Million Climate Jobs Campaign (mechanism based on research, networking and advocacy) as a movement which prefigures a 'just transition' to low-carbon development in South Africa, and to investigate in what sense this perspective from the South can be adapted and used in other Southern contexts in particular, and in the global context in general. [Originally posted at http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/clacso/sur-sur/20180810041959/Changing_environment.pdf]

A 2019 paper which argues that there is no “universal blueprint” for a 'just transition', but rather some common principles –principles that ultimately relate to basic philosophical ideas of natural justice, human decency and respect, and theories of effective social change– that are likely to be more or less universal across cultural contexts. [Originally posted at https://www.funcas.es/wp-content/uploads/Migracion/Articulos/FUNCAS_PE/007art03.pdf]

A 2018 short pamphlet which has been produced to launch the New Economics Foundation’s new program of work on the 'just transition'. It focuses on the practicality of change: the policies, processes, narrative and investment needed to accelerate the UK’s progress on 'just transition', here and now. [Originally posted at https://neweconomics.org/uploads/files/Just_transition_FINAL_ONLINE.pdf]

A 2020 report which provides a comprehensive package of timely recommendations focused on job-creating investment opportunities and foundational environmental funding, while also addressing tax policy measures, “green strings”, and re-aligning Canada’s economic and fiscal policy structures. [Originally posted at https://metcalffoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Green-Budget-Coalition-Recommendation-2020-2021.pdf]

A 2020 briefing which outlines what kind of governance policies, modalities, institutions, spaces and actors will be required to make sure that the transition is socially inclusive and supported by citizens. [Originally posted at https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_758106_smxx.pdf]

A 2021 brief which investigates the actual state of labour and employment in Canada’s fossil fuel industry, delves into some of the dimensions of a planned and fair employment transition away from fossil fuels, explains why that transition is manageable, and lays down a roadmap of principles that should be followed. [Originally posted at https://environmentaldefence.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Steady-Path-Labour-Transition-Jan-2021.pdf]

A 2020 paper which reviews articles that focus on a 'just transition' for fossil fuel workers and their communities in the context of climate change to describe the state of the literature and synthesize elements of 'just transition' that scholars in different academic fields identify. [Originally posted at https://coaltransitions.org/publications/a-systematic-review-of-the-key-elements-of-a-just-transition-for-fossil-fuel-workers/]