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Neither Climate nor Jobs: Nuclear Myths About the Just Transition
A 2021 publication which offers a comprehensive account of why nuclear power offers little by way of viable energy solutions to the climate emergency – and even less for how the massive socio-economic transformations our society must undertake in response to it – can be just. [Originally posted at https://za.boell.org/sites/default/files/2021-11/Neither%20Climate%20Nor%20Jobs_2021.pdf]
The Just Transition Challenge: Avoiding Carbon Leakage and Jobs Off-Shoring in Decarbonising International Supply Chains
A 2018 report which demonstrates that displacement of currently EU-based production activity could potentially lead to reductions in domestic jobs and GDP, combined with a net increase in global CO2 emissions. [Originally posted at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/66207/]
From Paris to Katowice: The EU Needs to Step Up its Game on Climate Change and Set its Own Just Transition Framework
A 2018 policy brief which examines implications of the EU’s targets for reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for labour markets. [Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3211822]
Just Transition at the Intersection of Labour and Climate Justice Movements: Lessons from the Portuguese Climate Jobs Campaign
A 2019 article which, drawing upon an extensive case study of the Portuguese climate jobs campaign, goes beyond showing how these orientations shape the positions taken by union and climate activists. The article also analyses how the conflicts and cooperation between these key actors can shed light on the possibilities and/or limitations of just transition as a framework for the collective action needed to achieve rapid, deep decarbonisation of economies in the Global North context. [Originally posted at https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/3631]
The Just Transition Challenge: Avoiding Carbon Leakage and Jobs Off-Shoring in Decarbonising International Supply Chains
A 2018 paper which demonstrates that displacement of currently EU-based production activity could potentially lead to reductions in domestic jobs and GDP, combined with a net increase in global CO2 emissions. [Originally posted at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/66207/]
A Just Transition to Sustainability in a Climate Change Hot Spot: The Hunter Valley, Australia
A 2009 thesis which uses a transdisciplinary, sustainability-science approach to investigate the potential for the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia to make a transition to sustainability. [Originally posted at https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Download/uon:6253/ATTACHMENT01]
Designing and Implementing Policy for a Just Transition
A 2020 working paper which explores some aspects of the changes needed to achieve a 'just transition' for all in the Republic of Ireland. [Originally posted at https://www.climatecouncil.ie/media/climatechangeadvisorycouncil/contentassets/publications/Working%20Paper%20No.%207.pdf]
The Implications of Green Employment: Making a Just Transition in ASEAN
A 2021 paper which constructs a policy framework for supporting the greening of employment and a 'just transition' across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/13/7389]
Phasing Out Coal – A Just Transition Approach
A 2019 working paper which examines what a 'just transition' to a greener but employment-rich and egalitarian economy might look like. It examines the employment structure the European economy with a focus on the coal sector in the light of European Union commitments to phase out coal and argues that policymakers should devise a specific plan for the sector. [Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3402876]
The Relationship Between a ‘Polluter Pays’ Approach to Carbon Capture, Regional Policy and ‘Just Transition’ Employment Agendas
A 2022 study which identifies a risk of policy commitment to ‘polluter pays’ having sustained negative outcomes for capture firms, along with offshoring/leakage of jobs and GDP, and associated emissions, as demand shifts to lower cost overseas production. [Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2022.2110031]
Are Green Jobs Advocates Their Own Worst Enemies?
A 2022 article which reviews the green jobs definitions being used, note their shortcomings, and summarize criteria for green jobs being utilized by advocates and politicians – including President Biden. [Originally posted at https://www.onlinescientificresearch.com/articles/are-green-jobs-advocates-their-own-worst-enemies.pdf]
Are ‘Green’ Jobs Good Jobs? Lessons from the UK and EU to Inform Labour Market Transitions
A 2021 policy brief which finds that around 20% of jobs in the UK and 14 European economies can be considered directly and indirectly green. It also finds some evidence that greener jobs tend to be ‘better’ jobs. [Originally posted at https://www.cccep.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Are-Green-Jobs-Good-Jobs_Policy-brief.pdf]
Re-Energising Manufacturing: Industrial Policy for Renewables Manufacturing in Scotland
A 2019 report which looks specifically at the manufacturing sector and what policy lessons can be learned from the last decade or more: is there more that could be done to bring greater numbers of the jobs in the Scottish renewables manufacturing supply chain to Scotland? And what are the implications of this for Scottish energy and industrial policy more broadly? [Originally posted at http://www.davidpowell.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/NEF_Re-energising-manufacturing_Nov.pdf]
The Effect of Energy Transition on the Labor Market. A Preliminary Evaluation of Poland’s Wind-Energy Industry
A 2022 paper which concentrates on a preliminary evaluation of Poland’s future job market. [Originally posted at https://journals.pan.pl/Content/122876/PDF/Janikowska-i-Jebreel-I-kor.pdf]
Green Jobs: Potential for Employment in the Republic of Serbia
A 2018 paper which puts emphasis not only on employment problems but also on perspective of increasing employment rate in the Republic of Serbia (Serbia) in the field of circular economy. [Originally posted at https://anali.ef.uns.ac.rs/index.php/AnnalsEFSU/article/view/19]
Economic and Employment Effects of China’s Power Transition Based on Input‒Output and Scenario Simulation
A 2022 study adopts input‒output model to analyze the impact on economy and employment based on accelerated and slow power transition scenarios in China. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674927822000909]

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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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