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A 2022 report which details preliminary findings from the project ‘Rare Earths in the Just Transition: Connecting Global Inequalities in REEs Commodity Chains’, which was funded by the British Academy’s Just Transitions within Sectors and Industries Globally scheme.
[Originally posted at https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/4203/Just-transitions-rare-elements-global-inequalities.pdf]
A 2020 study which aims to evaluate green growth, 'just transition' and decent work concepts in the context of sustainable development and
combatting climate change. In the study, it is concluded that if green growth and just transition processes are well managed they provide significant opportunities for realizing UN-SDGs, combatting climate change and the creation of decent works.
[Originally posted at https://alternatifpolitika.com/eng/site/vol/12/no/3/1-Tugac-Green-Growth--Sustainable-Development.pdf]
A 2022 paper which explores the extent to which social policies in South Africa might serve as mechanisms to enhance the transition to a low carbon economy and contribute to mitigating some of the negative impacts towards ensuring a holistic and 'just transition'.
[Originally posted at https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-afd-research-papers-2022-230-page-1.htm]
A 2022 study which argues that the post-COVID-19 re-build represents a once-in-a generation opportunity to markedly shift developed trajectories to more sustainable pathways, to rebalance the domains of sustainability, and in the process, to address longer-term crises including those of climate and biodiversity loss.
[Originally posted at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42398-022-00231-y]
A 2021 publication which offers a comprehensive account of why nuclear power offers little by way of viable energy solutions to the
climate emergency – and even less for how the massive socio-economic transformations our society must undertake in response to it – can be just.
[Originally posted at https://za.boell.org/sites/default/files/2021-11/Neither%20Climate%20Nor%20Jobs_2021.pdf]
A 2020 article which reviews three main approaches to energy transition and highlights their underlying goals and assumptions. It argues that movements for energy transition must center social and economic justice in their struggles if they want to gain broad-based appeal.
[Originally posted at https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gec3.12554]
A 2022 article which analyses how political processes have mutually shaped Green and Deal, involving tensions between system change versus continuity. The article is based on publicly available documents, with advice from some activists involved in Green New Deal (GND) agendas
[Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10455752.2022.2062675]
A 2022 article which analyzes the problems (dilemmas) in approach to the environmental protection and management.
[Originally posted at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan-Zozulak/publication/361978967_Ethical_and_Ecological_Dilemmas_of_Environmental_Protection/links/62dede6f3c7d190316aa8e5e/Ethical-and-Ecological-Dilemmas-of-Environmental-Protection.pdf]
A 2022 report which presents the findings of the Circular Economy (CE) Lab project, supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). This project aimed to provide a coherent picture of SEI-wide engagement on CE, identify key outputs from past SEI projects, provide a concrete list of knowledge gaps which future SEI proposals could explore further, and explore how SEI can support future directions for establishing an impactful and actionable CE research agenda.
[Originally posted at https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/accelerating-the-transition-to-a-circular-economy.pdf]
A 2021 report which argues for rethinking the response to climate change threats in the mediterranean based on lessons from the coronavirus
emergency.
[Originally posted at https://www.iemed.org/publication/rethinking-the-response-to-climate-change-threats-in-the-mediterranean-lessons-from-the-coronavirus-emergency/]
A 2022 scoping paper on PtX sustainability which aims to: contribute to the international debate on regulatory frameworks for hydrogen and its derivatives (e.g. ammonia, e-kerosene, etc); identify the key sustainability dimensions and concerns; outline a comprehensive and coherent framework for sustainability assessments; provide a solid basis for the implementation of sustainability standards and certification schemes.
[Originally posted at https://ptx-hub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/PtX-Hub-PtX.Sustainability-Dimensions-and-Concerns-Scoping-Paper.pdf]
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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