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Strategies for Appalachian Transition
A 2014 report from the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED)--a nonprofit organization promoting sustainable development in the U.S. eastern Kentucky and Central Appalachia--examining how coal regions can pursue economic development.
A Just Transition? Lessons from Defense Worker Adjustment in the 1990s
An April 1999 landmark study looking at the failures of Just Transition in the U.S. defense industry in the post-Cold War transition.
Careers in Wind Energy
A 2010 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report examining the prospects for jobs in the wind energy industries.
One Million Climate Jobs Tackling the Environmental and Economic Crises
A 2014 proposal from the United Kingdom's Campaign against Climate Change to hire a million people into government jobs to do new climate jobs in an integrated National Climate Service.
Putting the ‘Justice’ in ‘Just Transition’: Tackling Inequality in the New Renewable Economy
A 2019 Just Transition report from the Australian Victoria Trades Council
Fact Sheet: The American Jobs Plan
The Biden Administration's March 31, 2021 jobs plan which includes climate change-related jobs proposals
Online Companion to One Million Climate Jobs
This is the online technical companion to the UK One Million Jobs proposal (which can be found on the JT site) providing footnotes and references, calculation paths to the estimates, background papers and further reading.
EVs Are Coming. Will They Be Made in the USA?
A background briefing looking at the prospects of electric vehicle production in the U.S., produced by the BlueGreen Alliance, UAW, United Steelworkers, and the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council
The Employment Impact of Curtailing Fossil Fuel Use
A May 2021 analysis of the amount of U.S. job displacement due to cutbacks in the use of oil and natural gas--by the Center for Economic and Policy Research
Combatting Climate Change, Reversing Inequality: A Climate Jobs Program for Texas
A July 2021 report focusing on "the crises of inequality and climate change in Texas and makes a series of “climate jobs” recommendations that can help Texas simultaneously combat climate change, create high-quality jobs, and build more equitable and resilient communities"--from the Worker Institute’s Labor Leading on Climate Initiative at Cornell University.
Mobilizing for a Zero Carbon America: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and More Jobs
A July 2020 report "based on an extensive industrial and engineering analysis of what such a decarbonization would entail, demonstrates that aggressive decarbonization would create, rather than destroy, many millions of well–paying American jobs. These jobs will be highly distributed geographically and difficult to off- shore. The opportunity to create even more jobs by becoming an exporter of clean energy technologies would increase the number of jobs."
Case Study: Closure of Northern Power Plant Port Augusta, South Australia
A May 2020 study on the fate of workers after the closing of the Port Augusta power plant in South Australia--by the Canadian Labor Education Centre
Case Study: Phase out of Coal Fired Electricity Generation in Alberta
A June 2020 study of the impact on workers and their communities during and after the Phase out of Coal Fired Electricity Generation in Alberta and what are the lessons learned about ensuring a Just Transition for these workers, their families and their communities--form the Canadian Labor Education Centre

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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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