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A 2022 study which illustrates 15 contrasting interpretations of what constitutes a 'just transition' through interviews with 13 Swedish trade union representatives from Sweden’s three largest industrial emitters (steel, 14 petroleum refining, cement) along with representatives at the central level.
[Originally posted at https://academic.oup.com/oocc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/oxfclm/kgac006/6823550]
A 2022 paper which brings new critical perspectives on low carbon transitions by conceptualising decarbonisation as a form of spatial economic restructuring and its potential implications in reinforcing and/or working against the existing patterns of uneven spatial development.
[Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1967909]
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]
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]
A 2019 report which identifies workers in sectors and regions at high-risk in the transition and examine their skills profiles while keeping the principles of 'just transition' in mind.
[Originally posted at https://www.nerinstitute.net/sites/default/files/research/2019/working%20paper%20series%20no%2065_final.pdf]
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]
A 2020 study which focuses on China, India, the US, and Australia, which represent 70% of global coal production, and investigates: (1) the local solar and wind capacity required in each coal mining area to enable all coal miners to transition to solar/wind jobs; (2) whether there are suitable solar and wind power resources in coal mining areas in order to install solar/wind plants and create those jobs; and (3) the scale of renewables deployment required to transition coal miners in areas suitable for solar/wind power.
[Originally posted at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6c6d/meta]
When the Dominion Corporation proposed, on April 1, 2013, to build a liquefied natural gas export facility at Cove Point, Md., right on the Chesapeake Bay, seven hundred people demonstrated against it and many were arrested in a series of civil disobedience actions. But an open letter endorsing the project maintained it would “create more than 3,000 construction jobs” most of which would go “to local union members.” The letter—on Dominion letterhead—was signed not only by business leaders, but also by twenty local and national trade union leaders.
[Originally posted at https://ecology.iww.org/PDF/LNS/1115brecher.pdf]
A 2021 dissertation in which the author conducted a systematic review of the academic literature on 'just transition' to synthesize identified elements of 'just transition'. Next, the author collected a novel employment factors dataset and combined it with an integrated assessment model to analyze the energy sector employment implications of climate policies. Whether ‘local’ renewable jobs can be created for fossil fuel workers in key coal producing countries is also assessed. Finally, several novel datasets were collected to quantify and compare the scale of current socio-economic dependency on coal at the district level in India.
[Originally posted at https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0398719]
A 2022 report which returns to the economic restructuring literature of the 1980s and 1990s to provide a theoretical framework for understanding ‘spatial divisions’ of low carbon work and how they might be shaped to ensure economically 'just transition'.
[Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13563467.2021.1967909?needAccess=true]
A 2016 paper which seeks to analyze the policy position of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to that of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in relation to the green economy and green jobs.
[Originally posted at https://global-labour-university.org/wp-content/uploads/fileadmin/GLU_conference_2016/papers/7C/Cottle.pdf]
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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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