Just Transitions: Focusing on South Africa and India
This podcast explores CoP26 agenda and key priorities for a just transition away from coal in two coal dependent emerging economies: India and South Africa
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Just Transitions: Economic Diversification for Coal Dependent regions
This podcast looks at various opportunities and challenges for coal dependent regions in India and South Africa to create just and sustainable pathways to diversify their economies.
Understanding Just Transitions in Coal Dependent Communities
Meeting the Paris climate target of staying well below 2°C requires rapid reduction in the use of fossil fuels, particularly...
Why We Need a Just Rural 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
Climate Finance Shaped by the People, for the People
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.
COP26: The Perfect Opportunity for Latin America and the Caribbean to Champion a Just Transition to Net Zero
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.
Worker’s Voice and Investing in a Just Transition: The Fonds de Solidarité FTQ
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.
Just Transitions: A Just Green Recovery from Covid-19
This podcast explores how governments can promote economic spending packages that promote an inclusive and fair green recovery.
A Just Green Recovery from Covid-19
The Covid-19 recovery window offers a rare opportunity to transform economies and accelerate the green transition. There is renewed openness...
Just Transitions: India’s Path Forward
This podcast explores how decisionmakers can ensure that the accelerating transition in India is a just and equitable one.
Pathways for Just Transitions
Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to the planet, requiring rapid economic and social transformations that will affect workers and...
A Framework for Just Transitions
Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to life on earth, requiring rapid economic and social transformations that will affect workers...
Just Transitions: Local Lessons and Global Insights from South Africa
This podcast offers insights from South Africa’s long history of engaging with just transitions in the context of high unemployment, inequality, poverty, and dependence on coal.
Just Transitions: Assessing Gender Dimensions
This podcast discusses the gender dimensions of just transitions and offers recommendations for policy planning and implementation.
Just Transitions: Lessons Learned in South Africa and Eastern Europe
This commentary summarizes critical elements of case studies on just transitions to help guide future research, and includes lessons learned in just transitions work in South Africa and Eastern Europe.
Just Transitions: Progress to Date and Challenges Ahead
This commentary focuses on gaps in knowledge and key research questions related to just transitions, identifying eight areas that merit more research and policy guidance.
Just Transition Concepts and Relevance for Climate Action
This report explains the origins and evolution of just transitions and offers a framework to represent the range of definitions as well as underlying ideologies and approaches.
Just Transitions: An Introduction
This podcast discusses the importance of a just transition in the context of climate change policies and investments and explores the impact of Covid-19 on just transitions.
Who Needs a Just Transition?
This commentary introduces the just transitions concept, summarizes its importance in meeting climate and social equity goals, and emphasizes the need to define the term more clearly and increase its appeal.