Just Transition Insights, Issue #3, 11/14/2022
Leading Off: Transforming Energy Systems If you read our Guiding Philosophy, you noted this passage: Just Transition means evaluating how energy, and other social goods (such as clean water and clear air), are equally shared. In the future, access to electricity will increasingly require broad democratic rights to establish more publicly-owned energy resources to deliver […]
DATELINE—SOUTH AFRICA: Energy Transformation, Not Reform
The fundamental challenge in reaching a “high bar” Just Transition is to grapple with the idea beyond just jobs–and jobs are key!!!–and not simply stop at addressing the system through retraining, early retirement, better compensation, and a whole menu of labor adjustment programs. It is to rethink the entire model of energy production and use. […]