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Assessing NGO’s Engagement in WASH: The Contributions of School Sanitation Projects to Just Transition
A 2021 social empirical research which explores the feasibility of a justice-based sanitation approach guiding a transition towards societies with universal access to sanitation services. [Originally posted at https://epb.bibl.th-koeln.de/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/1830/file/2021.07.13_Master_Thesis_IWRM-Sumit_Sharma.pdf]
Just Transitions Towards a Nature-Positive Economy: Learning from Stories of Change
A 2021 discussion paper which lays out recommendations to achieve a just economic transitions to become nature-positive. [Originally posted at https://wwfint.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/just_transitions_towards_a_nature_positive_economy_summary_1.pdf]
Fast and Fair Renewable Energy for Africa: Lessons from Kenya
A 2022 report which analyzes case studies to provide rich lessons for Africa on how to achieve fast shifts to renewable energy while avoiding the delays and suspensions caused by irresponsible approaches, which create misery or dispossession for communities and workers. [Originally posted at https://media.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/2022_Renewable_Energy_lessons_from_Kenya.pdf]
Three Sides to Every Story: Gender Perspectives in Energy Transition Pathways in Canada, Kenya and Spain
A 2020 paper which explores energy pathways by applying concepts from innovations and gender studies. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629620301262]
A Just Transition for Urban Transport Workers: Issues and Experiences from Unions in Cities of the Global South
A 2022 report which highlights the ways in which extreme weather events, flooding, air pollution and draughts are impacting workers, especially women and young workers who often hold the most precarious jobs and have the least protection. It also features the effects of two technological changes often justified as related to combating climate change: the expansion of electric buses and the introduction of automated ticket vending technology. [Originally posted at https://www.itfglobal.org/sites/default/files/node/resources/files/A%20Just%20Transition%20for%20Urban%20Transport%20Workers_Report.pdf]
The Political Economy of Low Carbon Energy in Kenya
A 2014 paper which explores the role of politics, actors and institutions in enabling or frustrating the pursuit of climate compatible energy development in Kenya. [Originally posted at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.2040-0209.2014.00445.x]
Scoping Paper: Human Rights and the Energy Transition in Kenya
A 2022 scoping paper which explores the human rights dimensions of renewable energy and the energy transition in Kenya. It seeks to serve as a resource for stakeholder engagement and discussion in working towards a human rights-based energy transition in Kenya. [Originally posted at https://www.humanrights.dk/sites/humanrights.dk/files/media/document/Kenya%20Energy%20Transition%20and%20Human%20Rights%20Scoping_accessible.pdf]
Discussion Paper on Just Energy Transition in Kenya
A 2018 discussion paper which seeks to understand how far Kenya has achieved a 'just transition' in it energy sector. [Originally posted at https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/kenia/14811.pdf]
Special Report: Just Transition
A 2021 report which brings together articles and analysis on what 'just transition' looks like in Kenya, Costa Rica, the Philippines, New Zealand, Serbia and the US. [Originally posted at https://www.equaltimes.org/just-transition-from-awareness-to#.YyCqk-xBxQK]
Mapping Just Transition(s) to a Low-Carbon World
A 2018 report which unpacks the different understandings, narratives, and framings of 'just transition' that underpin the concept’s growing popularity and uptake. Six short country case studies then provide insights into how 'just transition' is—or is not—being mobilized on the ground. [Originally posted at https://www.uncclearn.org/resources/library/mapping-just-transitions-to-a-low-carbon-world/]
Exploring Just Transition in the Global South
A 2022 report which explores the role of a 'just transition' in nine diverse countries across the Global South. [Originally posted at https://climatestrategies.org/publication/exploring-just-transition-in-the-global-south/]
Defining a Just Transition for Sub-Saharan Energy Workers
A Discussion Paper of the Sub-Sahara Africa (SSAEN) arguing that "a transformative approach to an energy transition is the only way to ensure a just transition." [Originally posted at http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/suedafrika/16973.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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