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A 2021 report which lays out a variety of proposals to help enable an equitable energy transition and offers a menu of options that policymakers can choose among to enable this transition.
[Originally posted at https://media.rff.org/documents/RFF_Report_21-09_Policy_Options_to_Enable_an_Equitable_Energy_Transition.pdf]
A 2021 report which compiles findings from a series of reports that unpack existing US and European policies related to 'just transition' in order to help policymakers identify the components of a comprehensive just transition policy package.
[Originally posted at https://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/documents/RFF-EDF%20Fairness%20for%20Workers%20and%20Communities%20Synthesis%20Report.pdf]
A 2022 report which undertakes and aggregates new and existing research to examine actual, possible, partial and failed, examples of ‘just transitions’ across multiple sectoral and societal domains.
[Originally posted at https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/2992996/Just-Transitions_Report_A4_FA53.pdf]
A July 2022 report by the Center for American Progress arguing for the need for "prevailing wage" laws to ensure the electric vehicle industry creates good jobs.
[Originally posted at https://www.americanprogress.org/article/prevailing-wages-can-build-good-jobs-into-americas-electric-vehicle-industry/
This is the fifth edition of the report from the European Commission. This 2022 edition continues to "analyse the scope and size of the Blue Economy in the European Union. It aims at providing support to policymakers and stakeholders in the quest for a sustainable development of oceans, coastal resources and, most notably, to the development and implementation of polices and initiatives under the European Green Deal in line with the new approach for a sustainable Blue Economy."
[Originally posted at https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/156eecbd-d7eb-11ec-a95f-01aa75ed71a1 ]
A compilation summarizing and comparing eleven federal carbon pricing proposals introduced in the U.S. 116th Congress (2019–2020), highlighting similarities and differences. Published by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions.
[Originally posted at https://www.c2es.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/carbon-pricing-proposals-in-the-116th-congress.pdf]
This table from January 2020 outlines the Just Transition Mechanism allocation for the European Commission pursuant to the Amended proposal for the Just Transition Fund which "will provide support to all EU Member States, while concentrating on those territories and regions where the magnitude of the climate transition is larger."
[Original posted at https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_20_66]
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