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A 2021 report which discusses opportunities and actions for investors to support a 'just transition' for high-risk communities that are dependent on emissions-intensive energy industries.
[Originally posted at https://igcc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IGCC-Investors-role-in-an-Equitable-Transition-to-net-zero-emissions_FINAL-150720211-copy.pdf]
A 2021 report which examines how Joe Biden’s climate response programs will help to facilitate a 'just transition', as well as how they could be realized politically and be successfully implemented in fossil-fuel dependent areas. The report also examines how the environmental justice movement in the United States is tied to the push for adequate programs for 'just transition'.
[Originally posted at https://climateadvisers.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Climate-Advisers-Just-Transition-in-the-United-States.pdf]
A 2021 document in which Eni aims to describe its contribution to a 'just transition', an energy transition to guarantee access to efficient
and sustainable energy by achieving the goal of net zero emissions by 2050, with a view to sharing social and economic benefits with workers, the value chain, communities and customers in an inclusive, transparent and socially equitable manner, taking into consideration the different
level of development of the Countries in which it operates, minimizing existing inequalities.
[Originally posted at https://www.eni.com/assets/documents/eng/just-transition/2021/eni-for-2021-just-transition-eng.pdf]
A 2019 policy paper which provides an integral perspective on the challenges and opportunities of addressing climate change that the guarantee of a just energy transition will offer, emphasizing on the necessary policies and instruments for enhancing synergies between climate and the energy governmental agendas, to close the gap between Mexico’s national pledges and climate action.
[Originally posted at https://www.climate-transparency.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Energy-Transition-in-Mexico-%E2%80%93-Social-dimension-of-energy-and-the-politics-of-climate-change.pdf]
A 2022 paper which addresses the research gap in the context of the transition towards low-carbon energy sources by addressing the following question: how do Indigenous worldviews contrast with modernist visions of sustainability in the context of the energy transition?
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X21003405]
A 2021 thesis which explores three primary questions: 1) Why are large-scale, private sector projects the preferred model of renewable energy development?; 2) What legal and regulatory structures created by the reforms enable the present violence and conflict?; and 3) What lessons can the global community learn from Mexico’s model and experience?
[Originally posted at https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/139197]
A 2021 Sustainable Energy Transition (SET) roadmap which has been developed to identify technological options and policy measures
that will help the region navigate the transition of its energy sector in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the city’s own goals and targets.
[Originally posted at https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/d8files/knowledge-products/Sustainable%20Energy%20Transition%20Roadmap%20for%20Iskandar%20Malaysia_FINAL.pdf]
A 2020 article which critically discusses the notion of a 'just transition' toward democratic sustainability as developed at the intersection between climate justice and labor politics. We invite an expansion of ideas of socio-environmental and labor justice based on Jacques Ranciere’s “method of (in)equality,” which problematizes justice theories and the politics of identitarian-group recognition.
[Originally posted at https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1814585]
A 2021 article which attempts to discuss the European, national, and local 'just transition' policies and to assess the extent to which these policies are in line with the place-based model, as reflected in the Barca report (2009).
[Originally posted at file:///Users/reema/Downloads/Just_Transition_and_Place_Based_Policy_i.pdf]
A 2022 report which provides an overview of the status of non-conventional renewable energy sources (such as geothermal, wind, solar, biomass and small hydroelectric plants (IEA/IRENA 2019)), renewable energy targets and legal and regulatory frameworks adopted in four post-Soviet countries: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine.
[Originally posted at https://www.pwyp.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Final_Report_Energy_Transitions_Eurasia_PWYP.pdf]
A 2021 paper which analyzes the state of affairs with regard to air, water and soil pollution in the Western Balkan Six and examines how it affects citizens’ health and socioeconomic prospects. The policy brief argues that countries in the Western Balkans need to address a coal
phase-out while simultaneously tackling energy poverty.
[Originally posted at https://www.clingendael.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/Policy_brief_Green_agenda_providing_breathing_space_western_balkans_July_2021.pdf]
A 2021 publication which contains the key recommendations and input papers developed in the framework of the two expert workshops on the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans in 2021 organized by the Aspen Institute Germany.
[Originally posted at https://www.aspeninstitute.de/wp-content/uploads/2021_Aspen-Germany_Implementing-the-Green-Agenda-for-the-WB.pdf]
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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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