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Benchmarks for Assisting Coal Workers in a Just-Transition
A 2021 factsheet which presents three benchmarks based on existing cases to inform the development of national or regional assistance schemes for coal miners across the EU. [Originally posted at https://9tj4025ol53byww26jdkao0x-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/E3G_2021_Benchmarks-for-Assisting-Coal-Workers-in-a-Just-Transition.pdf]
Lessons for a Successful Transition to a Low Carbon Economy
A 2018 report which explores how transitions can be better planned for, managed and delivered. It develops a typology of the interventions that can be combined to enable a successful transition. These can be applied across any sector or country. [Originally posted at https://agulhas.co.uk/app/uploads/2018/06/CIFF-Transition-Review.pdf]
Just Transition for Regions and Generations: Experiences from Structural Change in the Ruhr Area
A 2019 study which reviews Germany’s experiences with structural policy focusing on the Ruhr area (but also experiences from other regions) and identifies the structural policy developments and their positive and negative impacts. [Originally posted at https://regionsbeyondcoal.eu/just-transition-for-regions-and-generations/]
A Roadmap to an Equitable Low-Carbon Future: Four Pillars for a Just Transition
A 2019 report which suggests that for a transition to a low-carbon future to be just, we must address the burdens placed upon environmental justice communities who have borne disproportionate environmental, social, and economic burdens of the fossil fuel economy. [Originally posted at https://dornsife.usc.edu/pere/roadmap-equitable-low-carbon-future/]
Four Case Studies on Just Transition: Lessons for Ireland
A 2020 report, which runs an analysis of transitions away from fossil-fuel-based regional employment in Australia’s Latrobe Valley, Scotland’s Just Transition Commission and Germany’s Ruhr Valley and Lausitz/Lusatia, finds that an inclusive, iterative, place-based, context-specific approach enabled by public investment provides the best outcomes, including the creation of low-carbon employment alternatives. [Originally posted http://files.nesc.ie/nesc_research_series/Research_Series_Paper_15_TTCaseStudies.pdf]
Structural Change in Coal Regions as a Process of Economic and Social-Ecological Transition – Lessons Learnt from Structural Change Processes in Germany
A 2021 paper which draws on the experiences of past and ongoing transition policies, exploring their effectiveness and transferability. [Originally posted at https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/1410/publikationen/2022-01-04_cc_33-2021_lessons_learnt_from_structural_change_processes.pdf]
The End of Coal Mining in South Wales: Lessons Learned from Industrial Transformation
A 2017 report which reviews the economic and political context of coal mining in South Wales, describing the origins of coal mining, its growth through the industrial revolution and into the inter-war period, its gradual but irreversible decline after the Second World War, and its eventual disappearance in the 1990s. It then examines the pronounced social and community consequences of mining and the closure of coal mines, drawing attention to the role of unionized labour and the role it played throughout the rise and fall of mining in Wales. [Originally posted at https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/end-of-coal-mining-south-wales-lessons-learned.pdf]
Financing a Just Transition in Africa: A Position Statement from the Zero Emissions Coalition
A 2021 position statement which targets the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and is the outcome of consultative processes with Civil Society Organisations across Africa. The paper highlights the urgent need to advance a just transition to a more equitable and sustainable future for all African people by ending the finance of all new and proposed fossil fuel-based energy, large-scale mining and plantations and large-scale industrial/intensive livestock farming investments and developments. [Originally posted at https://citinewsroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/AfDB_PositionPaper_English.pdf]
Supporting Just Transitions to Sustainable Land Use in Ghana
A 2022 case study which looks at Ghana’s efforts to tackle deforestation by changing agriculture, mining, and forestry practices to explore what it means to have 'just transitions' in these sectors, especially in the global South. [Originally posted at https://www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/sites/cif_enc/files/knowledge-documents/ghana_just_transitions.pdf]
Just Transition in Poland: A Review of Public Policies to Assist Polish Coal Communities in Transition
A 2022 report which is part of a series of papers prepared by Resources for the Future (RFF), Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and other partners that examine policies and programs to promote fairness for workers and communities in a transition to a low-greenhouse has emissions economy, often referred to as a just transition. [Originally posted at https://media.rff.org/documents/Report_22-06_June_1_2022.pdf]
Framework Agreement for a Just Transition in Coal Mining and the Sustainable Development of Mining Regions for the Period 2019/2027
A powerpoint presentation created by the La Federación de Industria, Construcción y Agro de la Unión General de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores (UGT-FICA; The Federation of Industry, Construction and Agriculture of the General Union of Workers and Workers in Spain) that outlines the nationwide agreement for Just Transition in coal mining.

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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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