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A Trade Union Approach to Climate Justice: The Campaign Strategy of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
A 2015 article which investigates how the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA) developed an approach to climate justice and is intervening to shape policy around the 'just transition' in South Africa. [Originally posted at https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/2325]
How Can the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy and Society Be Made More Just in South Africa?
A paper which argues that the only means of making the transition to low carbon just is by creating jobs for the affected coal miners. [Originally posted at https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/74636430/Just_Transition_South_Africa-libre.pdf?1636892183=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DHow_can_the_transition_to_a_low_carbon_e.pdf&Expires=1672091274&Signature=TVPqhWHH-5iRxcAzUmh-JvTjYEY7MaUKpyO7gmxXWUaSlJkJEVnjEBW4AkyS4Vl2MnX8NhqSM1WHWwyPLi69O1XRbPJzACUJXN7eqMZoUi6noMRaMXBswEi7okqBDZlVi41ZgTdfEgc90GLKvaMmNZmtkup7~DH4QhIuADWggGU2PN49PvH~4wEBmDzjmSKYP7ZPQpdIgIYrCZ~6zkAfl4SoAZh~8Sg0Q4lKjR-zkcBK0ZN8gywK3R095IkgE365EkPP9sJZr-zgw0mAltTTMSh7T5-S2AP2P1Jm88fZK6JjPIBxJq79xH-aQrfm3PPj3E4Wnnem~HQ6BGNelIPeIA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA]
It’s Time to Rethink SADC’s Transformative Industrialisation for a Just Transition: Lessons from Agro-Processing Regional Value Chains
A 2022 policy brief which identifies key challenges and the steps requires to meet them in order to industrialise and develop climate-smart food regional value chains. [Originally posted at https://www.uj.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sarchi-pb-2022-01-kaziboni-and-roberts-february-2022.pdf]
Insights for South Africa’s Just Transition Finance Roadmap
A 2021 paper which draws on the initial work by TIPS titled “Towards a contribution to a just transition finance roadmap in South Africa”, which began framing the conceptual demands of a sustainable transition on the South African financial system. [Originally posted at https://www.tips.org.za/images/Insights_for_South_Africas_Just_transition_Finance_Roadmap_Nexus_of_project_needs_and_financing_response_Chantal_Naidoo_Rabia_Transitions_Initiative.pdf]
Scaling The Just Transition For Community-Based and Community-Placed Projects
A 2021 paper which explores the question of scaling 'just transition' community projects, blending historical and empirical perspectives. [Originally posted at https://www.tips.org.za/images/Scaling_the_Just_Transition_for_community_based_and_community_placed_projects_Fumani_Mthembi_Knowledge_Pele.pdf]
The Paris Agreement and South Africa’s Just Transition
A 2018 briefing paper which explores the relationship between South Africa’s Paris pledge and the concept of a 'just transition'. [Originally posted at https://benlparr.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/MSSI-Briefing-Paper_10_SA_2018.pdf]
Mainstreaming Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Towards a Sustainable and Just Transition in Local Development Planning in Rural South Africa
A 2022 study which examines opportunities for mainstreaming ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) into local development planning in South Africa. [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/19/12368]
Power Struggles: An Exploration of the Contribution Of Renewable Energy to Sustainable Development, Decent Work And the “Just Transition” Through a Case Study of Wind Farm Development Outside Loeriesfontein, Northern Cape Province (2011-2020)
A 2022 dissertation which explores the contribution of renewable energy to sustainable development, “decent work” and the “just transition” to a lowcarbon economy in South Africa. [Originally posted at https://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/124613/malope_power_2022.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y]
Industrial Policy for a Just Transition to a Green Economy – The Importance of Regional Food Value Chains in Southern Africa
A 2022 working paper which builds on the theme 'climate change, industrial development, and a 'just transition' and green industrial policy as part of the working paper series of the SARChI Chair in Industrial Development. [Originally posted at https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52246331e4b0a46e5f1b8ce5/t/627baaf549802e690f4ba962/1652271874951/sarchi-wp-2022-01-kaziboni-and-roberts-february-2022-1.pdf]
Coal and Energy in South Africa: Considering a Just Transition
A 2021 book which assesses the coal industry, theoretical debates about coal, and government’s role in a 'just transition' and sustainability. [Originally posted athttps://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-coal-and-energy-in-south-africa.html]
Extractives and Illicit Financial Flows: Toward Climate Financing for a Just Transition
A 2022 paper which explores the relationship between extractives and IFFs in order to consider what a review of extractive and tax justice literature anchored in development considerations reveal about possible climate financing possibilities toward a 'just transition'. [Originally posted at https://ifaaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/S-Rakei-Extractives-and-Illicit-Financial-Flows.pdf]
A Just Transition Finance Roadmap for South Africa: A First Iteration
A 2021 first iteration of a 'just transition' finance roadmap for South Africa, is an initial attempt to understand the nature of the challenge of just transition finance in South Africa, what a system level change to the financial eco system could look like and an action agenda for the next four years to begin moving towards such a vision. [Originally posted at https://www.tips.org.za/research-archive/sustainable-growth/green-economy-2/item/4347-a-just-transition-finance-roadmap-for-south-africa-a-first-iteration]
The Concept of a Just Transition Is as Relevant to the Fourth Industrial Revolution as It Is for the Move Towards a Low Carbon Economy
A 2020 working paper which makes the case that worker-related tenets of a 'just transition' in the energy sector also apply to a migration to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) economy. [Originally posted at http://satrilibrary.dedicated.co.za:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/115]
Defend and Transform the Public Sector to Ensure a Just Transition
A 2020 paper which outlines what the energy transformation could entail, utilising the ‘Eskom transformed: achieving a just energy transition for South Africa’ report on South Africa’s national energy utility (ERRG 2020). [Originally posted at https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777047]
Blue Hydrogen as an Interim Phase of the Just Transition; Is it a Feasible Proposition for South Africa?
A 2022 conference paper which outlines the production of hydrogen using coal or gas with carbon capture and storage (CCS), known as blue hydrogen. [Originally posted at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Walwyn/publication/363860831_Blue_Hydrogen_as_an_Interim_Phase_of_the_Just_Transition_Is_it_a_Feasible_Proposition_for_South_Africa/links/6332a0ad694dbe4bf4c435fe/Blue-Hydrogen-as-an-Interim-Phase-of-the-Just-Transition-Is-it-a-Feasible-Proposition-for-South-Africa.pdf]
What Role for Social Policies in the Framework of the Just Transition in South Africa?
A 2022 paper which explores the extent to which social policies in South Africa might serve as mechanisms to enhance the transition to a low carbon economy and contribute to mitigating some of the negative impacts towards ensuring a holistic and 'just transition'. [Originally posted at https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-afd-research-papers-2022-230-page-1.htm]

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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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