With climate change posing unprecedented threats to the planet and society, there is a growing focus on just transitions to help achieve the economic and social changes necessary to meet climate and sustainable development goals, while protecting workers and communities and ensuring a more socially-equitable distribution of benefits and risks.
What is "Just Transition"?
The urgently needed transformations in food and land-use systems to address and adapt to climate change must meaningfully engage food producers and rural communities by placing justice, equity, and rural livelihoods at the center of their efforts
Concessional finance could prove critical for just transitions in developing countries. Multilateral climate funds, with their range of tried and tested financial tools, could help drive a new wave of investments that put people at the center of a net-zero economy.
The Covid-19 recovery window offers a rare opportunity to transform economies and accelerate the green transition. There is renewed openness...
Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to life on earth, requiring rapid economic and social transformations that will affect workers...