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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"just transition"”.
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Just Transition: Lessons from Mexico
… they promote, need to be reconsidered. A just energy transition model, that moves from fossil fuels to renewables, would not encourage the current patterns of land use and dispossession. Further, the rights of indigenous peoples must be secured through full recognition, legally and in …
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A Qualitative Analysis of the South African Just Transition
… humanity. As such, there is a necessary global transition to lower-carbon economies and societies to reduce the harmful emissions caused by human activities to mitigate the growing climate crisis. Yet, there are fears that there will be job losses and economic hardships as the world transitions …
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Integration of Just Transition Strategies into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
… their social impacts. Recently, the concept of just transition has emerged as a significant approach to support countries to assist countries in minimising the adverse effects of the transition and maximising its benefits, ultimately enabling more ambitious climate actions. Despite the adoption …
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The provisions and implementation of just transitions: lessons learned from Colorado's Just Transition
… and climate goals, the question of how to transition from fossil fuel energy sources arises. Transitions from fossil fuel energy sources have the potential to be "just" by addressing social and environmental justice implications. It is important to understand how to create and implement …
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THE POLITICS OF ECO-SOCIAL POLICIES: TOWARDS A JUST TRANSITION IN SPAIN AND IRELAND
… evident how both climate change and green transition policies are giving rise to a new wave of social risk for the welfare state to address. Therefore, the so-called eco-social policies could represent suitable tools for the state to simultaneously pursue social and environmental goals in a …
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A Just Transition Framework for Resilience - Evaluating Strategies for Seattle’s Duwamish Valley Resilience District
… for evaluating policies that advance climate justice within the emerging Duwamish Valley Resilience District in Seattle, Washington. The Duwamish Valley is a legacy industrial area and environmental justice community facing cumulative pollution burdens and increasing climate impacts. The …
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A Just Transition : energy democracy, community choice aggregation, and the (im)possibilities of change
… for energy democracy, and proponents of a Just Transition -a transformation of the current fossil fuel-based system into place-based, sustainable, equitable, and democratically controlled economies-have attempted to capture the potential of these changes to realize a low-carbon electricity …
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Building Blocks of a Just Transition: Green Banks and Residential Building Decarbonization in New York
… has given rise to financial solutions aimed at transitioning global systems away from fossil fuels and towards clean energy. Green banks are one such solution as a specialty finance vehicle aimed at using public funds to induce private investment in climate energy projects such as residential …
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Accelerating productive energy access for the just transition among vulnerable communities; a case study of West Nile, Uganda
… security has been considered crucial for a just transition towards low carbon sustainable socio-economic development including poverty eradication, job creation and decent employment, food security, among others. Nevertheless, multidimensional energy poverty is still a widespread phenomenon, …
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A just transition towards sustainable development: A legal analysis of the transition to a low-carbon economy in the South African mining industry in the context of sustainable development.
… environmental objectives. Environmental justice redresses the injustices of the past that are associated with the inequality that resulted from economic growth which caused environmental degradation and pollution, as well as the distorted access to and benefits from the extraction and use …
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A comparative analysis of South Africa's minerals-energy complex before 2011 and the current pursuit of a renewable just energy transition post-2011 to 2023
This research traces South Africa's energy transition. It examines to what extent South Africa is on a just transition trajectory by comparing the minerals-energy complex and the current transition to renewable energy. It conducts this review of just transition through the lens of “equity” and …
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Populist Just Transitions
This dissertation argues that the just transition policy framework may not vivify labor internationalism or erode support for right-wing populists if just transitions are not part of left-wing populist projects. Labor internationalism, which involves labor unions cooperating across borders to …
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An historical political economy analysis of high-emissions low-employment development in South Africa
… have been made for South Africa to embark on a just transition to a lowcarbon society, a better understanding is needed of the factors that have led to the country's current unsustainability. Drawing on the concept of the minerals-energy complex, this thesis presents an historical political …
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Doing the Dirty Work: Employment vulnerability to the energy transition and its implications for climate policy and politics
… recognition of the need for policy to support a just transition of those working in carbon-intensive industries. However, little work has thoroughly investigated which communities are most vulnerable to economic disruption in the energy transition and therefore require policy support. This thesis …
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Transition Pathways and Capabilities of Climate-Induced Migrants: The Case of Ready-Made Garment Workers in Bangladesh
… climate-induced migrants (CIMs) navigate their transitions into urban life, focusing particularly on their efforts to rebuild livelihoods and pursue stability after displacement due to environmental and climatic disasters. It critically analyses the multi-stage transitions and employment …
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Energy Transition Impacts for Workers: A Comparative Analysis of Differences in Energy Transition Policies in Germany and Appalachia and their Impact on Coal Employment Outcomes
Energy transitions are occurring across the globe as natural gas and renewable energies increasingly compete with and displace coal-fired electricity, and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change becomes more urgent. As energy sources transition, so too does the entire …
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The politics of justice in crafting Circular Economy narratives: Evidence from academics, network organisations and consultants
… adds to our understanding of the sustainability transition, particularly illuminating the nuances of politicising mechanisms that operationalise the complexity and the problems in achieving a just sustainability transition. The argument shows the close relationship between repoliticisation and …
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Mapping sectors for high employment and low carbon growth in South Africa
… pathway will be an important part of the overall transition to a lower carbon economy, in South Africa and elsewhere. Previously, sectors have been characterised according to either their employment or carbon intensity, but have not been mapped based on both measures. This dissertation fills this …
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Enabling the Just Energy Transition in South Africa
South Africa's recently published Just Transition Framework (2022) signalled a critical juncture for the country's heretofore separate energy decarbonisation and developmental agendas. However, despite the win-win framing of the South African just energy transition, evidence suggests that it may do …
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Climate change, trade unions and the promise of climate solidarity in the UK, 1997-2010
… and made distinctive demands for a radical just transition, climate jobs and socially useful work. Trade union climate representatives ("green reps") in some workplaces have made an independent contribution to climate mitigation and adaptation. The occupation of the Vestas wind turbine …
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