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The Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) criticizes the $8.5-billion Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) and its Investment Plan (JET-IP) as a market-centric deal that prioritizes private investor profits over South African local development. The IEJ argues that the deal's reliance on loans and private-sector 'de-risking' threatens to increase energy costs, maintain high state financial risk, and fail to provide adequate social security or local manufacturing support for workers in the coal belt.

This report by the NewClimate Institute analyzes historical and ongoing coal transitions in Europe to provide lessons for countries currently planning a phase-out, specifically highlighting the opportunities for China to proactively manage its transition.

A statement by the Life After Coal (LAC) campaign—comprising the Centre for Environmental Rights, Earthlife Africa, and groundWork—urging the South African government to lead at COP27 by supporting climate-vulnerable nations and accelerating a domestic Just Transition away from fossil fuels.

This report outlines a framework for a just transition away from large-scale meat production and consumption, specifically focusing on domestic meat markets in the Global North. It emphasizes the need for inclusive planning to protect vulnerable stakeholders and distribute costs and benefits evenly as policymakers implement regulatory and financial measures to reduce meat output.

This report outlines pathways for a just transition in the meat sector, specifically focusing on national markets in the Global North. It argues that while a shift away from industrial meat production and high consumption is urgently needed for climate, health, and biodiversity reasons, such transitions must be planned inclusively to protect vulnerable stakeholders and ensure equitable distribution of costs and benefits.

This toolkit, developed by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), provides a framework for States and stakeholders to integrate human rights obligations into the planning, content, and implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement.

This practitioner's guide, published in November 2022 by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), provides a framework for integrating human rights into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. It outlines recommendations for states to align their climate ambitions with international human rights obligations, emphasizing inclusive planning, gender equality, indigenous rights, land tenure, and a just transition for workers.

This policy brief by the Institute for Economic Justice critiques the USD 8.5 billion Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) for South Africa, arguing that its reliance on 'de-risking' private finance through Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and blended finance shifts commercial risks to the state while privatising gains. The authors contend that this model threatens to increase energy poverty, worsen the national debt profile, and undermine the localisation of renewable energy manufacturing. The document proposes alternative financing pathways, including the regulation of PPPs, debt cancellation for 'odious debt', climate reparations, and the implementation of allocative green credit policies.

This policy brief examines Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) in South Africa, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, and Senegal. It argues that these partnerships should facilitate a direct leapfrog from fossil fuels to renewable energy, rather than using fossil gas as a bridging fuel, which the author claims is economically risky, technically unnecessary, and climatically dangerous.

This research paper by the NewClimate Institute examines the alignment of 'policy-based operations' (PBOs)—unearmarked loans provided by public development banks in exchange for institutional reforms—with the Paris Agreement. The authors argue that current lending practices may undermine just transitions to carbon neutrality and propose a framework based on the 'do no significant harm' principle to ensure PBOs do not increase climate risk exposure and instead promote macro-fiscal resilience.

The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) submitted a set of six recommendations to the Government of Canada for the 2022 pre-budget consultations. The submission advocates for a 'planetary health' approach to policy, urging the federal government to transition toward a wellbeing economy, implement ambitious emissions reductions, phase out fossil fuel subsidies, and invest in climate adaptation and pollution protection.

This report by Energy Innovation provides a guide for state policymakers to leverage the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 to accelerate the transition to clean electricity. It details the mechanics of clean energy tax credits, reinvestment financing for fossil infrastructure, and transmission provisions, while analyzing independent modeling of the IRA's potential to reduce U.S. electricity sector emissions and lower household energy costs by 2030.

This fact sheet by the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) audits the August 2022 draft of the South African Renewable Energy Masterplan (SAREM). It evaluates the draft against labour recommendations, arguing that the current plan lacks sufficient detail on decent work, public ownership, and aggressive localisation. The IEJ proposes a series of demands for final negotiations to ensure the energy transition supports employment creation, local manufacturing, and a proactive recycling industry.

This policy brief by the South African Institute of International Affairs examines the priorities and challenges for African nations leading up to COP27 in Egypt. It highlights the continent's push for climate justice, increased financial support for adaptation and loss and damage, and a 'just transition' that allows for the temporary use of natural gas to ensure energy security.

This briefing from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) argues that Indonesia must urgently plan for a just energy transition to mitigate the economic and social risks associated with its heavy reliance on fossil fuels, particularly coal, oil, and gas.

This policy brief by the International Institute for Sustainable Development and Équiterre proposes a four-part framework for the Canadian government to identify and phase out 'inefficient fossil fuel subsidies' to align with climate commitments and the Paris Agreement.

This briefing by the International Institute for Sustainable Development and Équiterre proposes a four-criteria framework to identify and eliminate 'inefficient' fossil fuel subsidies in Canada, arguing that current efforts are fragmented and lack a clear definition of inefficiency.

This research paper examines the EU's strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from road transport and buildings via the Fit for 55 package and the Emissions Trading System, specifically focusing on the role of the proposed Social Climate Fund in ensuring a just transition for vulnerable households.

This research paper by the Green Economy Coalition proposes a structural agenda for a green economic recovery from COVID-19. It defines green structural reforms as systemic, long-lasting, and general-purpose interventions, contrasting them with short-term stimulus measures. The document provides a nested framework of ten high-level reform measures and a comprehensive set of prioritisation criteria (conventional, advanced, and systemic/political) to help governments move beyond emergency triage toward long-term socio-ecological transformation.

The Life After Coal/Impilo Ngaphandle Kwamalahle Campaign, represented by the Centre for Environmental Rights, groundWork, and Earthlife Africa, submitted comments on the Climate Change Bill, 2022. The submission argues that the Bill is insufficient to address the climate emergency and lacks the urgency, ambition, and enforcement mechanisms necessary to meet South Africa's international obligations under the Paris Agreement and protect constitutional rights.