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Countering the Risk of an Uneven Low-Carbon Energy Transition
A 2019 policy brief which focuses on the risks of an uneven transition and makes concrete proposals to prevent such risks. [Originally posted at https://publications.iass-potsdam.de/rest/items/item_4812898_2/component/file_4812900/content]
Ensuring a Just Energy Transition Through Hydrogen: How the G20 Can Support Africa
A 2022 policy insight which explores G20 members’ recognition of green hydrogen as a key technology in decarbonizing hard-to-abate carbon-intensive industries. [Originally posted at https://saiia.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Policy-Insights-122-ED-grobbelaar-ngubevana.pdf]
IMF Surveillance and Climate Change Transition Risks: Reforming IMF Policy Advice to Support a Just Energy Transition
A 2021 report which presents new findings on key areas of Fund surveillance related to energy transition risks, and suggests that the Fund’s approach to fossil fuels, which largely sees the imperative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as a ‘demand side’ issue, is insufficient to address transition risks, and – more broadly – to support a just energy transition. [Originally posted at https://www.actionaidusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMF-x-climate-FINAL-1.pdf]
Reforming Global Finance to Support a Just Energy Transition: Implications for IMF Policy Advice
A 2021 briefing which is primarily based on the report 'IMF Surveillance and Climate Change Transition Risks: Reforming IMF policy advice to support a just energy transition' by ActionAid-USA and the Bretton Woods Project. The report argues that enabling countries to take necessary action on climate change requires fundamental changes to the global economic system, including major reform to IMF policy advice. [Originally posted at https://www.actionaidusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CSO-Briefing_IMF-and-a-Just-Energy-Transition_FINAL.pdf]
Guiding Principles & Lessons Learned For a Just Energy Transition in the Global South
A 2017 study which provides an overview of different 'just transition', energy transformation and climate justice discourses, presents a set of just energy transition principles and applies them to evaluate climate policies of 12 Global South countries. [Originally posted at https://www.brot-fuer-die-welt.de/fileadmin/mediapool/blogs/Fuenfgelt_Joachim/just_energy_transition_in_global_south_final.pdf]
ILO Just Energy Transition Innovation Challenge: Fostering Innovation for High-Impact Climate and Decent Work Solutions
A 2021 report which aims to identify, enhance, test and disseminate high-potential policy ideas and solutions that promote a 'just transition' for all, breaking from business-as-usual. [Originally posted at https://www.climateaction4jobs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Online-PDF-full-challenge-call-description.pdf
BlueGreen Alliance National Energy Transition Policy Framework
A 2021 platform which recommends policies that will bring immediate and long-term benefits to workers and communities [Originally https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Transition-Platform-v1-1-column-5321.pdf]
Bringing Social Equity into Low-carbon Investment: Why It Matters and Emerging Lessons
A 2011 paper which explores why social equity matters for a successful transition to a low-carbon energy economy. [Originally posted at https://base.socioeco.org/docs/carbon_equity_full_paper.pdf]
Delivering a Timely and Just Energy Transition: Which Policy Research Priorities?
A 2020 article which develops and discusses the following four research priority strands: (a) intergenerational justice and energy justice, (b) justice and energy vulnerability, (c) transformation of the social imaginary and energy infrastructure, and (d) damage, compensation, and energy infrastructure. [Originally posted at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/eet.1892]
Just Energy Transformation
A 2021 paper which identifies the different elements that must pull together and integrate to enable successful energy transitions that deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals. It starts from the premise that energy transitions and social justice questions are intrinsically linked. [Originally posted at https://www.wwf.eu/?5035466/The-case-for-a-just-energy-transformation]
A Just Transition of European Coal Regions: Assessing Stakeholder Positions Towards the Transition Away from Coal
A 2019 briefing which offers a deep dive into the positioning of key stakeholders as well as opportunities and challenges for a transition away from coal in some of Europe’s most coal-dependent regions: Ústecký kraj (Czech Republic), Western Macedonia (Greece), Upper Silesia (Poland), Horná Nitra (Slovakia) and Obilić (Kosovo). It aims to serve as background for necessary political and policy decisions surrounding a phase-out from coal. [Originally posted at https://www.euki.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/E3G_2019_Stakeholder_Mappings_European_Coal_Regions_Final-1.pdf]
A Social Pact for the Energy Transition
A 2018 chapter which presents an outline of a 'social pact' that will ensure the energy transition is a 'just transition', and not just a transition. [Originally posted at https://institutdelors.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ch4-makingtheenergytransitionaeuropeansuccess-study-pellerincarlinfernandesrubio-june2017.pdf]
Designing Building Decarbonisation Policies for a Socially Just Energy Transition
A 2022 policy briefing which analyzes the social justice implications of building decarbonisation policies by screening four legislative proposals, and makes a number of recommendations, including how to improve provisions in the files, and on the narrative and approach to these issues. [Originally posted at https://www.bpie.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/BPIE_Designing-Building-Decarbonisation-Policies.pdf]
Implementing a Just Renewable Energy Transition: Policy Advice for Transposing the New European Rules for Renewable Energy Communities
A 2021 study which argues that financing and ownership models that address renewable energy complementarity, spatial organization of resource potential, demographics, pushback from incumbents, and inclusion of traditionally marginalized groups, are common issues across all Member States that are crucial for the transposition of Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) and a just energy transition. This paper highlights the benefits and challenges of widespread development of Renewable Energy Communities (RECs), and using examples from the pending transposition process provides policy advice for effective implementation of the RED II with respect to RECs. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421521003050]
Gender Just Energy Policy: Engendering the Energy Transition in Europe
A 2021 PhD thesis which aims to bridge the scientific and policy knowledge gap in what constitutes a gender just energy policy by developing and applying a conceptual framework that integrates energy justice and gender approaches in energy policy. [Originally posted at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353247576_Gender_Just_Energy_Policy_engendering_the_energy_transition_in_Europe]
Delivering Climate Targets: How Can EU Policy Support a Just Transition?
A 2022 policy brief which builds on different analysis made by members of the Think Sustainable Europe network on different files of the FF55. It summarizes the most significant social impacts related to them and presents policy recommendations to address them. [Originally posted at https://ieep.eu/uploads/articles/attachments/58dd984e-b389-4a7e-9f6a-41dbff31e8d1/Just%20transition%20-%20Think2030%20policy%20brief.pdf?v=63830355782]

Hot Reports

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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