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Building a Just Transition: Creating a Community Engagement Strategy for Building Electrification Policy in the City of Riverside
A 2021 project report which sought to promote a 'just transition' to building electrification in the city of Riverside, California through a community engagement process that prioritized equity. [Originally posted at https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/125/]
A Framework for Assessing the Readiness and Vulnerability of the Romanian Territories Affected by the Just Transition Process
A 2022 paper which consists of an exploratory study which seeks to build a multi-criteria index to assess the vulnerability and the readiness of regions affected by the energy transition, based on data collected from six Romanian affected regions. [Originally posted at https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/picbe-2022-0108]
Just Transition in Silesia: From Coal-Centric to Coal-Exit Development Pathways
The restructuring of the Silesian economy is a long-term process which has started in the 1990s. It includes not only a gradual phase-out of coal mining but also much broader sectoral realignment from traditional industries towards modern manufacturing and services, in line with a broader transition which Poland has been undergoing since abandoning centrally planned economy and launching the process of integrating with the European Union. Today, these processes are already advanced, but significant challenges remain. 2021 is a crucial year for charting further transition pathways for the region, as two stakeholder processes are set to conclude in the coming months. The first one is the preparation of Territorial Just Transition Plan, and the second is developing mining restructuring strategy. [Originally posted at https://journals.ub.ovgu.de/index.php/NFL/article/view/2013]
Coal and Energy in South Africa: Considering a Just Transition
A 2021 book which assesses the coal industry, theoretical debates about coal, and government’s role in a 'just transition' and sustainability. [Originally posted athttps://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-coal-and-energy-in-south-africa.html]
A Just Transition Towards a Coal-Free Steel Industry: Perspectives from Labour
A 2019 paper which analyses potential social impacts in a concrete case: the planned transition from coal to hydrogen-based steelmaking in the Swedish steel industry. [Originally posted at https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/files/94761821/Vogl_Rootz_n_Svensson_2019_A_just_transition_towards_a_coal_free_steel_industry_Copy.pdf]
Moral Rifts in the Coal Phase-Out—How Mayors Shape Distributive and Recognition-Based Dimensions of a Just Transition in Lusatia
A 2021 article which elucidates how actors at the intersection between inner- and supra-regional discourses respond to and shape complex, spatially and morally diverging justice claims in the tension field between distribution and recognition. [Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1992267]
Energy-Sufficiency for a Just Transition: A Systematic Review
A 2020 research which examines energy sufficiency as a maximum quantity of energy associated with improvements in human well-being to inform a recalibration of energy targets among high-energy societies. [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/10/2444]
Financing the Just Transition Beyond Coal
A 2021 policy brief which looks at actions the energy sector and finance are starting take to ensure there is a 'just transition' for affected workers and communities, and how those actions can be scaled up. [Originally posted at https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/financing-the-just-transition-beyond-coal/]
Just Transition – The First Pillar of Poland’s Energy Policy Until 2040 – Legal, Economic and Social Aspects
A 2022 report which discusses the issue of 'just transition' and presents the general directions of Poland’s energy transition until 2040. [Originally posted at https://journals.pan.pl/Content/124617/PDF/01-Bro%C5%BCy%C5%84ski.pdf]
The EU Long-Term Strategy as an Opportunity for Just Transition: Five Elements for Success
A 2019 analysis of possible transition challenges and opportunities in the European energy, transport and agricultural sector finds that a framework for analysing and managing a 'just transition' needs to include the following aspects: employment and financial impacts, impacts on consumers and citizens, the geographic distribution of impacts and the impacts from climate change itself, in particular if action is delayed. [Originally posted at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep21749.pdf]
Leaders and Laggards in the Pursuit of an EU Just Transition
A 2022 report which finds that EU states' performances on 'just transition' are distinct across four broad regions; Scandinavia, eastern Europe, western Europe, and the Mediterranean. It discusses the nuances of fossil fuel embeddedness in the EU. This is followed by reflection on the importance of embedding fairness in the deployment of new renewable jobs. Finally, it considers the implications for a better-targeted financial mechanism for just transition alongside a fossil fuel divestment strategy. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800922003603]
Renewables and Reconciliation: Decolonizing Climate Policies for a Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Future
A 2022 exploratory research paper which sets out to unpack the misalignment between provincial climate policies and legislated commitments to reconciliation, the meaning of a 'just transition' to a low-carbon future, and how Indigenous clean energy projects and proponents are, and ought to be recognized as, leaders in this transition. [Originally posted at https://summit.sfu.ca/item/35325]
Supporting Young Oil and Gas Workers in Alberta: Lessons from Just Transition
A 2020 study which examines potential improvements to Alberta’s employment services system and its active labour market policies to better support young oil and gas workers in their adjustment. [Originally posted at https://summit.sfu.ca/item/20104]
A Just Transition: Energy Democracy, Community Choice Aggregation, and the (Im)possibilities of Change
A 2017 thesis which examines the barriers to realizing community choice aggregation. [Originally posted at https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/111393/1003291792-MIT.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y]
Making Decarbonization Work for Workers: Policies for a Just Transition to a Zero-Carbon Economy in Canada
A 2018 report which distinguishes between reactive 'just transition' policies, which are intended to minimize the harm to workers of decarbonization, and proactive just transition policies, which are intended to maximize the benefits. If the broad goal of a just transition is to ensure an equitable, productive outcome for all workers in the zero-carbon economy, a mix of reactive and proactive elements is necessary [Originally posted at https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/39435]
Blue Hydrogen as an Interim Phase of the Just Transition; Is it a Feasible Proposition for South Africa?
A 2022 conference paper which outlines the production of hydrogen using coal or gas with carbon capture and storage (CCS), known as blue hydrogen. [Originally posted at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Walwyn/publication/363860831_Blue_Hydrogen_as_an_Interim_Phase_of_the_Just_Transition_Is_it_a_Feasible_Proposition_for_South_Africa/links/6332a0ad694dbe4bf4c435fe/Blue-Hydrogen-as-an-Interim-Phase-of-the-Just-Transition-Is-it-a-Feasible-Proposition-for-South-Africa.pdf]

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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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