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]

A 2021 paper which constructs a policy framework for supporting the greening of employment and a 'just transition' across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/13/7389]

A 2022 article which proposea a framework of principles and criteria for 'just transitions' in food systems. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422422000399]

A 2020 article which reviews three main approaches to energy transition and highlights their underlying goals and assumptions. It argues that movements for energy transition must center social and economic justice in their struggles if they want to gain broad-based appeal. [Originally posted at https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gec3.12554]

A 2019 working paper which examines what a 'just transition' to a greener but employment-rich and egalitarian economy might look like. It examines the employment structure the European economy with a focus on the coal sector in the light of European Union commitments to phase out coal and argues that policymakers should devise a specific plan for the sector. [Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3402876]

A 2022 study which identifies that future transition policymaking could benefit from using spatially targeted interventions, and in adopting a whole systems approach. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622001347]

A 2021 working paper which explores the systemic changes in governance that could mitigate challenges associated with efforts to promote a 'just transition'. [Originally posted at https://tips.org.za/images/Working_paper_PCC_Governance_and_the_Just_Transition_2021.pdf]

A 2022 study which identifies a risk of policy commitment to ‘polluter pays’ having sustained negative outcomes for capture firms, along with offshoring/leakage of jobs and GDP, and associated emissions, as demand shifts to lower cost overseas production. [Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2022.2110031]

A 2022 theme issue which underlines the many ways in which political ecology is well-positioned to lead critical and engaged scholarship in support of energy/climate justice. [Originally posted at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486221108164]

A 2022 dissertation which comprises three papers: 1) a critical overview of fair shares and decarbonization scenarios, and a way to reconcile what should be done with what experts think can be done (with a Canadian case study); 2) a framework for climate testing proposed fossil fuel infrastructure that can be used to evaluate an individual project's compatibility with global or domestic emissions reduction targets (with a case study of Canadian gas); and 3) an analysis of the potential for a shift towards services to mitigate GHG emissions and other environmental impacts. [Originally posted at https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/991208/1/HorenGreenford_PhD_F2022]

A 2019 study which applies a 35-statement Q-methodology to identify the priorities of stakeholders as they relate to the Irish expanded polystyrene (EPS)/extruded polystyrene (XPS) market and the wider societal transition to a circular economy. [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/23/6834]

A 2022 article which reviews the green jobs definitions being used, note their shortcomings, and summarize criteria for green jobs being utilized by advocates and politicians – including President Biden. [Originally posted at https://www.onlinescientificresearch.com/articles/are-green-jobs-advocates-their-own-worst-enemies.pdf]

A 2022 article which discusses how energy policy measures for realizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 7 and 13 in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) could be framed towards achieving energy justice by 2030. [Originally posted at https://academic.oup.com/jwelb/article/15/3/223/6564681]

A 2021 working paper which develops three generic models that allow policymakers to analyze the impact of introducing either a nodal, a zonal, or a uniform pricing system on the three horns of the energy trilemma in their country. [Originally posted at https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/49490]