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A 2021 book which illuminates the places where theory and reality converge and presents an approach to municipal development, planning, and governance that takes seriously the urgent need to address climate change and injustice. Addressing a wide variety of topics and themes, including energy, diversity, economic development, and ecological health, Sustainability Matters is both a critique of current practice and a vision for the future that uses the city of Calgary as a microcosm to address issues faced by cities around the world.
[Originally posted at https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/57694/9781773852492.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y]
A 2022 report which seeks to highlight issues that will need to be considered within the context of IMF's role in supporting South Africa's 'just transition'. (The report focuses on government and civil society. The private sector falls outside its scope.)
[Originally posted at https://www.africaportal.org/publications/exploring-potential-role-imf-supporting-south-africas-just-transition/]
A 2021 article which presents a study of how key unions in Norway a country with a large petroleum sector as well as high union level density – have moved their preferences on transition issues in the period 2007–2019.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422421000654]
A 2021 policy brief which is the first in a series to be published as part of the Centre for Energy Policy’s role in the Scotland’s Net Zero Infrastructure (SNZI) project. The first research challenge is to understand how a new Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Transport and Storage (T&S) industry servicing a Scottish regional cluster links into the Scottish and UK economies. The first question is what does the T&S supply chain look like? As a benchmark, the authors consider how introduction of a new T&S industry, initially servicing industrial capture in the Scottish Grangemouth cluster, might impact the wider UK economy if it shared the same supply chain structure as the existing Oil and Gas (O&G) industry.
[Originally posted at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/78261/]
Carbon prices and carbon caps need to be set at levels that will deliver the reduction targets necessary to keep global warming under 2 °C, aspiring to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, in line with the Paris Agreement. Given both the urgency of the situation and the heterogeneity across countries and sectors, switching caps and switching prices may be the answer.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421522002105]
Phasing out coal requires expanding the notion of a ‘just transition’ and a roadmap that specifies the sequence of coal plant retirement, the appropriate policy instruments as well as ways to include key stakeholders in the process.
[Originally posted at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0866-1.]
A 2020 report which recommends radical changes to be made in order that the path to a net-zero economy be founded upon a 'just
transition', addressing both banking firms and government.
[Originally posted at https://www.social-banking.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Financing-Climate-Action-with-Positive-Social-Impact.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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