A Green New Deal could put severe pressure on lands held by Indigenous and marginalized communities and reshape their ecologies into “green sacrifice zones.” Such cost shifting risks reproducing a form of climate colonialism in the name of 'just transition'. Avoiding cost shifts opens interdisciplinary research questions regarding land-use policy, economics, politics, and non-Eurocentric knowledge and leadership. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259033222030542X]

European commission president-designate Ursula von der Leyen has made climate change a top priority, promising to propose a European green deal that would make Europe climate neutral by 2050. The European green deal should be conceived as a reallocation mechanism, fostering investment shifts and labour substitution in key economic sectors, while supporting the most vulnerable segments of society throughout the decarbonisation process. The deal’s four pillars would be carbon pricing, sustainable investment, industrial policy and a just transition. [Originally posted at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep28626.pdf]

A 2021 qualitative study which applies a 'just transition' frame to evaluate how polycentric Regional Energy Transition (RET) strategies, in this case the Dutch RES process, could accelerate a just transition and implement the three dimensions of just transition practice. [Originally posted at https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3418/]

A 2022 edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook which explores options for the region to recast its production models, transform its energy matrix and create better jobs in the process. It argues that, for this transition to be just, stronger social protection systems and open dialogue must help build new, sustainable social contracts. In support of this ambitious agenda, the report presents an array of financing options, including green finance, and advocates for renewed international partnerships. [Originally posted at https://repositorio.cepal.org/handle/11362/48415]

A 2018 report which aims to assess the Commission’s recently released sectoral proposals for the next 2021-2027 multi-annual financial framework. It explores the contribution of several instruments - Cohesion Policy Funds, European Social Fund Plus, InvestEU, Horizon Europe and European Globalisation Adjustment Fund - to the 'just transition' agenda. It also identifies options for the EU regulator to better align funds with this agenda. [Originally posted at https://www.euki.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/E3G-Report-Funding-the-just-transition-to-a-net-zero-economy-in-Europe.pdf]

A 2018 briefing paper which explores the relationship between South Africa’s Paris pledge and the concept of a 'just transition'. [Originally posted at https://benlparr.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/MSSI-Briefing-Paper_10_SA_2018.pdf]

A 2022 dissertation which explores the contribution of renewable energy to sustainable development, “decent work” and the “just transition” to a lowcarbon economy in South Africa. [Originally posted at https://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/124613/malope_power_2022.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y]

A 2021 paper which aims to highlight the challenges posed by the Just Transition Mechanism in two selected Polish transition territories (Upper Silesia and Bełchatów Basin). [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/10/1072]

A 2021 paper which discusses how to measure whether and to what degree EU environmental policy is socially just by using easily interpretable indicators. Its main task is to assess existing (or officially discussed) European-level indicators at the socio-environmental nexus on their suitability to serve as Just Transition (headline) indicators, and to identify gaps. [Originally posted at https://www.oeko.de/fileadmin/oekodoc/JustTransition-Indicator-Paper.pdf]

A 2021 project report which sought to promote a 'just transition' to building electrification in the city of Riverside, California through a community engagement process that prioritized equity. [Originally posted at https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/125/]

A 2021 report which attempts to address the following questions: What do we mean when we talk about delivering a 'just transition' to net zero or embedding energy justice within the energy system? Who is responsible for operationalising this and ensuring energy justice is embedded in the transition to net zero? Do different stakeholders have different capacities to act? How can those with real power be motivated to create change and held accountable for their actions? [Originally posted at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/78376/]

A 2020 policy brief which shows that carbon tax and emissions trading system are gaining momentum across the world, including in Asia and the Pacific, but current rates are too low to shift behaviour, capital and technology towards low-carbon development. [Originally posted at https://repository.unescap.org/handle/20.500.12870/1069]

A 2020 research which aims to identify the specific causal mechanisms at play that can explain the influence of (Energy Cooperatives) ECs and their inclusion of understandings of justice in regional policy outputs for the energy transition. [Originally posted at https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/38645]

A 2021 book which assesses the coal industry, theoretical debates about coal, and government’s role in a 'just transition' and sustainability. [Originally posted athttps://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-coal-and-energy-in-south-africa.html]

A 2020 report which brings together ten progressive proposals that could pay for the costs of the pandemic and finance a 'just transition' to a better world. [Originally posted at https://longreads.tni.org/paying-for-just-transition]

A 2020 article which examines how COVID-19 impacts migrant workers and what can be done for their equitable transition after the pandemic is subdued. [Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3666064]