Just Transition Planning Masterclass

The Just Transition Planning Masterclass provided practitioners from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, and Namibia with frameworks to ensure nature-based solutions (NbS) are equitable. The program highlighted that while NbS are often seen as 'win-win', they can cause socio-economic disruptions, such as loss of employment in extractive industries or displacement of communities without formal land tenure. Participants explored the Climate Investment Fund’s Just Transition Planning Toolbox and identified strategies to mitigate negative impacts, including livelihood diversification, re-skilling, and social protection measures. The report also notes barriers to implementation, such as limited institutional capacity, financial constraints, and community mistrust.

• Nature-based solutions (NbS) can cause significant socio-economic disruptions, particularly for those whose livelihoods depend on unsustainable practices, and risk reinforcing existing inequalities if justice is not centered.
• Standard environmental and social safeguards are often insufficient for just transition planning because they focus on narrow project risks and fail to assess indirect social or economic impacts, distributional impacts, or benefit sharing.
• Potential negative impacts of NbS include the loss of employment in extractive industries, loss of access to resources like charcoal or subsistence hunting, displacement of communities without formal land tenure, and increased human-wildlife conflict.
• To manage negative impacts, practitioners can invest in livelihood diversification, provide re-skilling for affected workers, create social protection measures, and use traditional knowledge to reduce conflicts.
• Implementation of just transition frameworks in NbS faces several barriers, including financial trade-offs, limited institutional capacity for multi-stakeholder coordination, lack of data, and community mistrust stemming from past experiences.
• A just transition approach offers opportunities to reduce structural inequalities, such as gender gaps, by using NbS-generated income for education and leadership training rather than just addressing symptoms.

APA

Climate Strategies (2025). Just Transition Planning Masterclass. https://climatestrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Just-Transition-Planning-Masterclass-Series-for-NbS-Practitioners_Summary.pdf

Chicago

Climate Strategies. Just Transition Planning Masterclass. 2025. https://climatestrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Just-Transition-Planning-Masterclass-Series-for-NbS-Practitioners_Summary.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatestrategies2025just, author = {{Climate Strategies}}, title = {{Just Transition Planning Masterclass}}, institution = {Climate Strategies}, year = {2025}, url = {https://climatestrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Just-Transition-Planning-Masterclass-Series-for-NbS-Practitioners_Summary.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }