Just Transition for All

Politics
A 2018 report which distinguishes between reactive 'just transition' policies, which are intended to minimize the harm to workers of decarbonization, and proactive just transition policies, which are intended to maximize the benefits. If the broad goal of a just transition is to ensure an equitable, productive outcome for all workers in the zero-carbon economy, a mix of reactive and proactive elements is necessary [Originally posted at https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/39435]
A 2022 paper which explores how the ownership and governance of land in Scotland needs to evolve if the Scottish Government is to deliver on its stated policy objectives. [Originally posted at https://www.communitylandscotland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Report-2022-Community-Wealth-Building-and-a-Just-Transition-to-Net-Zero.pdf]
A 2021 book which introduces what the authors consider to be the main aspects to be researched in the fields of food security, justice, and climate change before the authors link together the chapters and papers of this volume that directly and explicitly deal with ethics, food security, and climate change. The first section introduces what is considered to be the main challenges in the nexus between climate change, justice, and food security, and the second and third sections introduce the more general themes of the chapters of this book. [Originally posted at https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/book/10.3920/978-90-8686-915-2]
Feeding the world’s growing population in ways that are effective, ethical and socially just, and protect the natural systems on which all life depends is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. It forms the theme of this book of papers of the 2022 Edinburgh conference of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EURSAFE). [Originally posted at https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/epdf/10.3920/978-90-8686-939-8?role=tab]
A 2022 research which finds that policy entrepreneurship is strongly deter-mined by the characteristics and overlap of institutional policy windows. [Originally posted at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1136]
A 2018 report which demonstrates that displacement of currently EU-based production activity could potentially lead to reductions in domestic jobs and GDP, combined with a net increase in global CO2 emissions. [Originally posted at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/66207/]
A 2022 study which argues that achieving a 'just transition' from coal in Australia will require both deliberate work on the ‘hearts and minds’ journey to acceptance of and development of a shared vision of the concept and taking concrete practical action across government and industry to achieve this vision. [Originally posted at https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/towards-a-just-transition-from-coal-in-australia/#:~:text=Achieving%20a%20just%20transition%20from,industry%20to%20achieve%20this%20vision.]
A 2018 policy brief which examines implications of the EU’s targets for reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for labour markets. [Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3211822]
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 2018 paper which demonstrates that displacement of currently EU-based production activity could potentially lead to reductions in domestic jobs and GDP, combined with a net increase in global CO2 emissions. [Originally posted at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/66207/]
A 2021 working paper which aims to contribute to unpacking the meaning of a 'just transition' and the tools to foster it in the South African context. [Originally posted at https://www.tips.org.za/images/Working_Paper_PCC_Policy_primers_for_a_Just_Transition_framework_2021.pdf]
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 2022 article which discusses how the energy transition will impact the fuel poor, who should pay for the energy transition and how we can protect the most vulnerable. customers.[Originally posted at https://extra.shu.ac.uk/ppp-online/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/role-regulator-just-transition.pdf]
A 2020 working paper which explores some aspects of the changes needed to achieve a 'just transition' for all in the Republic of Ireland. [Originally posted at https://www.climatecouncil.ie/media/climatechangeadvisorycouncil/contentassets/publications/Working%20Paper%20No.%207.pdf]
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/]

Hot Reports

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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