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Empowering Communities: How Investors Can Support an Equitable Transition to Net Zero
A 2021 report which discusses opportunities and actions for investors to support a 'just transition' for high-risk communities that are dependent on emissions-intensive energy industries. [Originally posted at https://igcc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IGCC-Investors-role-in-an-Equitable-Transition-to-net-zero-emissions_FINAL-150720211-copy.pdf]
A Comprehensive Climate Mitigation Strategy for Mexico
A 2021 paper which discusses a comprehensive strategy for implementing Mexico’s climate mitigation commitments. [Originally posted at https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/10/18/A-Comprehensive-Climate-Mitigation-Strategy-for-Mexico-494708]
Just Transition and Place-Based Policy in Coal-Dependent Areas
A 2021 article which attempts to discuss the European, national, and local 'just transition' policies and to assess the extent to which these policies are in line with the place-based model, as reflected in the Barca report (2009). [Originally posted at file:///Users/reema/Downloads/Just_Transition_and_Place_Based_Policy_i.pdf]
Monitoring Energy Transitions in Eurasia (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine): Analysis and Policy Implications
A 2022 report which provides an overview of the status of non-conventional renewable energy sources (such as geothermal, wind, solar, biomass and small hydroelectric plants (IEA/IRENA 2019)), renewable energy targets and legal and regulatory frameworks adopted in four post-Soviet countries: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine. [Originally posted at https://www.pwyp.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Final_Report_Energy_Transitions_Eurasia_PWYP.pdf]
The Green Agenda: Providing Policy Brief Breathing Space for Western Balkans Citizens?
A 2021 paper which analyzes the state of affairs with regard to air, water and soil pollution in the Western Balkan Six and examines how it affects citizens’ health and socioeconomic prospects. The policy brief argues that countries in the Western Balkans need to address a coal phase-out while simultaneously tackling energy poverty. [Originally posted at https://www.clingendael.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/Policy_brief_Green_agenda_providing_breathing_space_western_balkans_July_2021.pdf]
A Just Transition of European Coal Regions: Assessing Stakeholder Positions Towards the Transition Away from Coal
A 2019 briefing which offers a deep dive into the positioning of key stakeholders as well as opportunities and challenges for a transition away from coal in some of Europe’s most coal-dependent regions. It aims to serve as background for necessary political and policy decisions surrounding a phase-out from coal. [Originally posted at https://9tj4025ol53byww26jdkao0x-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/E3G_2019_Stakeholder_Mappings_European_Coal_Regions_Final.pdf]
Four Principles for a Participatory Just Transition in the Western Balkans and Ukraine
A 2020 position paper which lays out four principles for a 'just transition' in Ukraine and the Western Balkans. [Originally posted at https://bankwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/position-JT-WB-UA.pdf]
A Decade of Progress Towards a Just Climate Future
A 2021 report which shows how the efforts of the fossil fuel divestment movement over the last nine years, have resulted in fossil fuel stocks routinely underperforming the market. [Originally posted at https://www.divestinvest.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Divest-Invest-Program-FINAL10-26_B.pdf]
Fast and Fair Renewable Energy for Africa: Lessons from Kenya
A 2022 report which analyzes case studies to provide rich lessons for Africa on how to achieve fast shifts to renewable energy while avoiding the delays and suspensions caused by irresponsible approaches, which create misery or dispossession for communities and workers. [Originally posted at https://media.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/2022_Renewable_Energy_lessons_from_Kenya.pdf]
Green Transition in Africa: Implications for Sweden and the EU
A 2022 paper which explores green transition dynamics in Africa by analyzing drivers and bottlenecks and what that could mean for Sweden and the EU’s engagement with the African continent in the context of the EU Green Deal. [Originally posted at https://ecdpm.org/wp-content/uploads/Green-Transition-Africa-Implications-Sweden-EU-ECDPM-Discussion-Paper-320-2022.pdf]
Three Sides to Every Story: Gender Perspectives in Energy Transition Pathways in Canada, Kenya and Spain
A 2020 paper which explores energy pathways by applying concepts from innovations and gender studies. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629620301262]
A Just Transition for Urban Transport Workers: Issues and Experiences from Unions in Cities of the Global South
A 2022 report which highlights the ways in which extreme weather events, flooding, air pollution and draughts are impacting workers, especially women and young workers who often hold the most precarious jobs and have the least protection. It also features the effects of two technological changes often justified as related to combating climate change: the expansion of electric buses and the introduction of automated ticket vending technology. [Originally posted at https://www.itfglobal.org/sites/default/files/node/resources/files/A%20Just%20Transition%20for%20Urban%20Transport%20Workers_Report.pdf]
Scoping Paper: Human Rights and the Energy Transition in Kenya
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]
Understanding Regional Energy Poverty in Japan: A Direct Measurement Approach
A 2019 study which examines the regional characteristics of energy or fuel poverty in Japan through a new approach, i.e., evaluating energy poverty via the direct measurement of energy service usage. [Originally posted at https://tsukuba.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/51841/files/EB_193.pdf]
Just Transition in the International Development Cooperation Context
A 2020 report which aims to shed light on how 'just transition' work has been advancing in low and middle-income countries and highlight how trade unions and development actors can enhance climate ambition. It provides examples of union responses in different productive sectors and how Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) will shift labour markets and sectorial challenges. [Originally posted at https://www.uniontounion.org/sites/default/files/material_files/report_just_transition_eng_webb.pdf]
Mitigating Inequality With Emissions? Exploring Energy Justice and Financing Transitions to Low Carbon Energy in Indonesia
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]

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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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