A 2022 study where the researchers focus on in-depth interviews conducted in 2019 and 2020 with 48 labor union members and leaders in varied occupations from eight national unions located in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Energy workers' views on climate change were varied, but contrary to stereotypes about blue-collar workers “climate skeptic” views were held by only a few. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622000184]

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]

A 2021 article which provides an upper-bound reduced-order cost estimate for widespread implementation of Agrivoltaic systems in the United States. [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/1/137]

A 2020 report which outlines the main features of the US Green New Deal (GND) with Senator Bernie Sanders’ more detailed, fully costed version, exploring its implications for policymaking and social science-based energy research. We focus on two of its most striking characteristics: its macroeconomics; and its inextricable linkage of climate change mitigation and the reduction of economic inequality. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629620301067]

A 2019 article which discusses the entanglements of coal with contentious development agendas in many parts of the world through a climate justice lens that engages the cultural politics surrounding coal and energy transition. [Originally posted at https://direct.mit.edu/glep/article/19/2/149/14931/Coal-Climate-Justice-and-the-Cultural-Politics-of]

A 2011 paper which explores the opportunities for a 'just transition' to low carbon and sustainable energy systems; one that addresses the current inequities in the distribution of energy benefits and their human and ecological costs. [Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2351464]

When the Dominion Corporation proposed, on April 1, 2013, to build a liquefied natural gas export facility at Cove Point, Md., right on the Chesapeake Bay, seven hundred people demonstrated against it and many were arrested in a series of civil disobedience actions. But an open letter endorsing the project maintained it would “create more than 3,000 construction jobs” most of which would go “to local union members.” The letter—on Dominion letterhead—was signed not only by business leaders, but also by twenty local and national trade union leaders. [Originally posted at https://ecology.iww.org/PDF/LNS/1115brecher.pdf]

A 2022 thesis which contributes to the emerging field of scientific climate justice debate that raises questions of just adaptation and in which ways it is addressed in climate change adaptation policies under the agenda of 'just transition'. The focus of the thesis is particularly on European climate change adaptation dialogue, in the platform of a public consultation organized by the European Commission. [Originally posted at https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/342694/Leppanen_Saara_MScThesis_2022.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y]

A 2022 chapter which reviews the origins of the 'just transition' concept in the late twentieth century labour movement, characterizes other social movements’ co-optation of the concept over the subsequent decades, and offers a deeper examination of the (many) theories of justice that animate the (contested) 'just transition' concept. [Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4181820]

A 2022 review which examines the politics of achieving more just outcomes by asking, what is our current understanding of justice advocacy and the impacts of such advocacy on the energy transition? In this study, the authors systematically review articles that include the key concepts of 'just transition' or 'energy justice' and that examine advocacy in energy transition contexts. [Originally posted at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac7341/meta]

A 2016 paper which seeks to analyze the policy position of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to that of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in relation to the green economy and green jobs. [Originally posted at https://global-labour-university.org/wp-content/uploads/fileadmin/GLU_conference_2016/papers/7C/Cottle.pdf]

A flagship technical support which is targeted at Member States wishing to address gaps in the implementation of the 'just transition' in their regions. [Originally posted at https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/b3-just_transition.pdf]

A 2020 study which proposes an analytical scheme to better interpret and differentiate amongst the growing number of 'just transition' proposals and, by extension, planetary just transition. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811620300240]

A 2019 discussion paper which focuses on what a 'just transition' is, what the opportunities and challenges are for business, trade unions, government and communities and how collectively we can govern and finance the transition to a resilient, low carbon economy. [Originally posted at https://unglobalcompact.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2019.08.27_Just-Transition-Discussion-Paper-2.pdf]

A 2017 report which considers how a justice approach could inform sustainability leaders in policy-making and business circles. [Originally posted at https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/resources/publication-pdfs/justice-in-the-transition-to-a-low-carbon-economy.pdf]

A 2018 agreement by the Indigenous Environmental Network which outlines a series of principles for a 'just transition' to a green economy. It recognizes Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and assertion of self-determination along with a place-based set of principles, processes and practices for collaborating with the public and private sectors. [Originally posted at https://www.ienearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/PrinciplesJustTransition-Color.pdf]