Just Transitions: Frameworks and Finance
CSIS and the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) held a workshop to discuss just transitions—the idea that, as the world transitions toward sustainable development, workers and communities must both be protected by and benefit from the deep and rapid changes to come. Experts from multilateral development banks, labor and environmental organizations, think tanks, governments, and other institutions outlined key principles and challenges to just transitions.
Offering feedback on our analytical framework on just transitions, they identified gaps in knowledge and key research questions to be addressed through the JTI and the just transitions research community more broadly. The robust discussion focused on how to finance a just transition, including the role of governments, multilateral institutions, and the private sector.
Participants

Sarah Ladislaw
Senior Vice President; Director and Senior Fellow, Energy Security and Climate Change Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Mafalda Duarate
CEO, Climate Investment Funds

Samantha Smith
Just Transitions Centre; International Trade Union Confederation

Aaron Atteridge
Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute

Nick Robins
Professor in Practice, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Russell Bishop
Principal Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Therese Niklasson
Global Head of ESG, Ninety One

David Wood
Director, Initiative for Responsible Investment