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Takeaways for India from IPCC’s Assessment of Global Mitigation Efforts
A 2022 brief which highlights some policy takeaways for India from the broad areas identified by the Working Group-III (WG-III). It notes the actions needed to enable a greater flow of cross-border finance, foster innovation to ensure a synergy between development goals and mitigation actions, and the early planning necessary to overcome the challenges associated with achieving a 'just transition'. [Originally posted at https://www.orfonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ORF_IssueBrief556_IPCC-Mitigation-Efforts.pdf]
Supporting a Just and Inclusive Transition
A 2022 paper which aims to define the case for a just and inclusive transition, and its place in meeting the Paris Agreement; highlight the importance that Prudential places on ensuring the transition to a low-carbon economy is a just and inclusive one; and explore case studies and further actions required, both from Prudential and the wider market. [Originally posted at https://www.prudentialplc.com/~/media/Files/P/Prudential-V13/content-pdf/prudential-plc-just-and-inclusive-transition-white-paper.pdf]
Spatial Processes and Politics of Renewable Energy Transition: Land, Zones and Frictions in South Africa
A 2016 paper which seeks to make a contribution to on-going debates about how to conceptualize the spatial processes of renewable energy transition. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629816301925?via%3Dihub]
Shaping Our Green Future: Pathways and Policies for a Net-Zero Transformation
A 2021 collection of essays and papers which provides modelling and analysis that begin to answer some of the following questions: Can “net zero” be a net positive for Indian and global growth? And what are the development pathways that must be put into place in the next few years to turn this new climate ambition into a new, greener development paradigm? What are the changes to the multilateral architecture, to international regulation, and to local laws that must be undertaken if ambitious targets are to be achieved — or, indeed, exceeded? And how can we ensure that the transition is just and inclusive? [Originally posted at https://www.orfonline.org/research/shaping-our-green-future/]
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]

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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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