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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]
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]
Global Practices for Financing of Early Coal Retirement for Accelerated Green Energy Transition
A 2022 report which reviews global, regional and national initiatives for facilitating the early retirement of coal-fired power plants and draws lessons for financing a 'just transition' and ensuring energy security. [Originally posted at https://greenfdc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/D3_Early_Coal_Retirement_Best_Practices.pdf]
A Just Distribution: The Overlooked Role of Energy Distribution Policy and Governance in Achieving a Just Energy Transition in South Africa
A 2021 report which identifies what is missing from the current narratives of a just transition. In the initial assessment, there are two key gaps in the current national 'just transition' debate that will undermine significant progress towards a genuinely inclusive and socially just energy system. [Originally posted at https://justurbantransitions.com/our_resources/a-just-distribution-the-overlooked-role-of-energy-distribution-policy-and-governance-in-achieving-a-just-energy-transition-in-south-africa/]
The Sky’s Limit Africa: The Case for a Just Energy Transition from Fossil Fuel Production in Africa
A 2021 report which assesses fossil fuel industry plans to sink USD $230 billion into the development of new extraction projects in Africa in the next decade — and USD $1.4 trillion by 2050. It finds these projects are not compatible with a safe climate future and that they are at risk of becoming stranded assets that leave behind unfunded clean-up, shortfalls of government revenue, and overnight job losses. The report also contains country-level analysis for the top 16 projected oil, gas, and coal producers in Africa for 2020-2050. [Originally posted at https://priceofoil.org/2021/10/14/the-skys-limit-africa/]
The Just Transition In Coal
This 2021 Working Paper, produced for the South African presidential climate commission, describes "the nature of the transition and the associated costs and benefits; the nature of existing governance systems; and key debates arising around the way forward." [Originally posted at https://www.tips.org.za/images/Working_Paper_PCC_The_Just_Transition_in_coal_2021.pdf]
Unemployment and Sustainable Livelihoods: Just Transition Interventions in the Face of Inequality
An October 2021 Working paper for the South African presidential climate commission that examines how to ensure that a transition "is inclusive, and does not leave poor households and unemployed people behind." [Originally posted at https://www.tips.org.za/images/Working_Paper_PCC_Just_transition_and_sustainable_livelihoods_2021.pdf]
Transforming Education for Sustainable Development South Africa Background Paper
A 2021 background paper which considers both: 1) how education can contribute to sustainable development, and 2) how sustainable development can shape quality, relevant education. It also frames the meaning of education broadly, within a lifelong learning framework that includes formal education, technical and vocational education and training, work and learning, as well as social movement and community education and social learning. [Originally posted at https://tesf.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/TESF-South-Africa-Background-Paper-Final_05022021.pdf]
Spatial Divergence of South Africa’s Energy Transition and Its Implications for Energy Justice
A 2021 briefing which investigates the impact of geographical differences in the availability and utilization of renewable energy resources to implement a just energy transition. This study also evaluates the impact of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) on contributing to achieving socio-economic development aspirations and goals at the local level. The results pointed to two key barriers to a just energy transition in South Africa: socio-economic and institutional barriers. [Originally posted at https://climatecompatiblegrowth.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/3C-COP26-Policy-Brief.pdf]
Renewable Energy Transitions in Cape Town: Opportunities for Cape Town to Become a Pioneer City for Renewable Energy Transitions in South Africa
A 2019 thesis which centers around the importance of energy security and sustainability within Cape Town, South Africa. [Originally posted at https://www.ie-ei.eu/Ressources/FCK/image/RECHERCHE/Theses_2019/Bernstein_Thesis%20.pdf]
Accelerating Renewable Energy Industrialisation in South Africa: What’s Stopping Us?
A 2020 report which presents the results of a study which unpacks some of the major political, institutional, regulatory and social barriers to renewable energy deployment in South Africa. It also provides some insight into proposed means of addressing these barriers to facilitate accelerated industrialisation in the renewable energy sector. [Originally posted at https://meridianeconomics.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Accelerating-renewable-energy-industrialisation-in-South-Africa-July2020.pdf]
A Just Transition to Cleaner Energy in South Africa
A 2020 policy brief which lays out policies that must be put in place to mitigate the effects on coal-mining workers and communities and ensure a just energy transition. [Originally posted at https://sa-tied.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/SA-TIED%20policy-brief-0420.pdf]
South Africa's Energy Transition – Unraveling Its Political Economy
A 2022 case study which identifies main actors, objectives, and the relevant contextual factors forming the political economy of energy and coal in South Africa by analyzing the driving factors for the ongoing dominance of coal. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0973082622000928]
A Just Transition Framework for South Africa
A 2022 report which outlines the 'just transition' framework as an opportunity to start dealing with practical issues relating to jobs, local economies, skills, social support, and governance. [Originally posted at https://pccommissionflow.imgix.net/uploads/images/A-Just-Transition-Framework-for-South-Africa-2022.pdf]
Ownership and a Just Energy Transition
A 2017 briefing paper which focuses on the notion of ownership in relation to energy, from a South African perspective; and in the context of a changing energy landscape. [Originally posted at http://www.cplo.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/BP-444-Ownership-and-a-Just-Energy-Transition-Nov-2017.pdf]
A Just Energy Transition for South Africa
A 2018 one pager which explains 'just transition' in the context of South Africa. [Originally posted at https://90by2030.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/JET-one-pager_31July2018_last-version.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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