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Shaped by Chevron: Race, Responsibility, and Resistance in Richmond, California
A 2018 dissertation which delves deep into community history to understand how the evolution of corporate community relations practices have shaped regional racial formation, community development, and community organizing in Richmond. [Originally posted at https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:m044c6338/fulltext.pdf]
Sustainable Rehabilitation of Surface Coal Mining Areas: The Case of Greek Lignite Mines
In the frame of growing pressure due to the CO2 emissions reduction initiatives; rapidly increasing renewable-power capacity; and cheap natural gas, the development of a modern mine land rehabilitation strategy is considered as a prerequisite for mitigating the social and economic impacts for the local communities. In the case of western Macedonia lignite mines, these prospects are investigated based on a PEST (political, economic, social, technological) analysis of seven alternative land uses. [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/15/3995]
The Fiscal Implications of the US Transition Away from Fossil Fuels
A 2022 report which develops a novel estimate of the revenues generated by fossil fuels for all governments in the United States, then estimates how those revenues change under three stylized scenarios through 2050: Business-as-usual, 2°Celsius, and 1.5°Celsius. [Originally posted at https://media.rff.org/documents/WP_22-3_-_Fiscal_Implications.pdf]
Transitioning Beyond Coal: Lessons from the Structural Renewal of Europe’s Old Industrial Regions
A 2017 paper which offers lessons, insights and cautionary warnings from the experience of renewal initiatives in Europe’s old industrial regions and illustrates the ways in which some of the seeds for a ‘just’ regional transitions to zero-carbon economies may, in fact, lie in a careful understanding of the potential to build on the specific historical context of the regions industrial development and capabilities. [Originally posted at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lars-Coenen/publication/321069498_Transitioning_beyond_coal_Lessons_from_the_structural_renewal_of_Europe's_old_industrial_regions/links/5a0baaf5a6fdccc69eda46a0/Transitioning-beyond-coal-Lessons-from-the-structural-renewal-of-Europes-old-industrial-regions.pdf]
Coal in Net Zero Transitions: Strategies for rapid, secure and people-centred change
A 2022 report from the International Energy Agency "designed to provide pragmatic, real‐world guidance on how policymakers can achieve a reduction in coal emissions without harming their economies or energy" [Originally posted at https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/4192696b-6518-4cfc-bb34-acc9312bf4b2/CoalinNetZeroTransitions.pdf] security.
Phasing Out Identities? Narratives of Coal Workers’ Struggles in Lusatia’s Energy Transition Process
A 2021 thesis, embedded in the field of political ecology, which draws on 'just transitions' discourses and investigates the social implications of energy transitions for lignite workers in Lusatia. [Originally posted at https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9063062&fileOId=9065185]
A Novel Dataset for Analysing Sub-National Socioeconomic Developments in the Indian Coal Industry
A 2021 report which creates a novel dataset comprised of all 459 operational coal mines in India, using multiple Right to Information Act applications (India’s Freedom of Information Act) and then combining this dataset with coal company wise employment factors to estimate direct job numbers at the district level(a subadministrative unit). [Originally posted at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2633-1357/abdbbb/meta]
Equity, Climate Justice and Fossil Fuel Extraction: Principles for a Managed Phase Out
A 2020 paper which explores how to equitably manage the social dimensions of a rapid transition away from fossil fuel extraction. [Originally posted at https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/equity-climate-justice-and-fossil-fuel-extraction-accepted-manuscript.pdf]
Navigating Coal Mining Closure and Societal Change: Learning from Past Cases of Mining Decline
A 2019 paper which assess the existing knowledge base to better understand the economic, social and political consequences of mine closure at the national and subnational scales. [Originally posted at https://cdn.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/navigating-coal-mining-closure-and-societal-change.pdf]
Phasing Out Coal Power Plants Based on Cumulative Air Pollution Impact and Equity Objectives in Net Zero Energy System Transitions
A 2022 report which aims to evaluate the future phase-out of coal generators. The authors optimize for alternative climate policy goals, in addition to air pollution objectives related to the distribution of impacts on the basis of income, race, voting patterns, population density, and National Ambient Air Quality Standards classifications. [Originally posted at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2634-4505/ac70f6/meta]
Contested Justice: Climate Justice Activists’ and Coal Workers’ Interpretations of a Just Transition in the Rhinish Lignite Phase Out
A 2022 thesis which investigates workers’ and climate justice activists’ perceptions of justice in the transition process by looking at the Rhineland region, which has become a key site of the struggle around the future of the lignite industry. [Originally posted at https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9079314&fileOId=9079320]
Aligning Fossil Fuel Production with the Paris Agreement: Insights for the UNFCCC Talanoa Dialogue
A 2018 brief which focuses on how fossil fuel production fits into the process of progressing towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and maps a more ambitious pathway forward, using the three guiding questions of the Talanoa Dialogue: Where are we? Where do we want to go? and How do we get there? [Originally posted at https://newsroom.unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/11_12_13__SEI_Talanoa_Fossil_Fuels.pdf]
Impacts of the Reimagine Appalachia and Clean Energy Transition Programs for Pennsylvania: Job Creation, Economic Recovery, and Long-Term Sustainability
A 2021 study which proposes a recovery program from the COVID-19 pandemic for Pennsylvania that is capable of exerting an effective counterforce against the state’s ongoing recession in the short run while also building a durable foundation for an economically viable and ecologically sustainable longer-term recovery. [Originally posted at https://reimagineappalachia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Pollin-et-al-PA-Final-Report-1-22-21.pdf]
Distributional Impacts of Mining Transitions: Learning from the Past
A 2020 paper which addresses the following questions: 1. What have been the documented distributional impacts of past declines in natural resource extraction, disaggregated by gender and by age? 2. How have distributional impacts been mitigated in the past? [Originally posted at https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/distributional-impacts-of-mining-transitions-1.pdf]
How to Avoid Unjust Energy Transitions: Insights from the Ruhr Region
A 2022 paper which leverages documentary analysis of data across a wide array of sources to test these claims and identify lessons by creating a novel just energy transition framework. [Originally posted at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13705-022-00345-5]
Post-Coal Fantasies: An Actor-Network Theory-Inspired Critique of Post-Coal Development Strategies in the Jiu Valley, Romania
A 2022 paper which seeks to address the question: how were people “brought in” for the production of coal during socialism, how were they subsequently “pushed out”, and how challenging is it now for the Jiu Valley strategy to reassemble a network to support the post-coal transition? [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/7/1022]

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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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