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 disproportionate impact of Covid-19 and extreme weather events in Latin America and the Caribbean highlight the urgent need for a just transition to net zero. COP26 is a golden opportunity for the region to set its sights on a green economy that works for all.
Investors are embedded in society, and the Solidarity Fund of Québec shows one example of direct engagement by investors to help workers and communities to prepare for an energy transition.
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...