Ab heute trifft sich die internat. #Klimapolitik auf Einladung von @AuswaertigesAmt @COP30 zum Petersberger Klimadialog in Berlin.
Das Treffen dient als inhaltliche & strategische Vorbereitung auf die COP30. Themen u. a.: #NDC #Klimafinanzierung #Biodiv #JustTransition
Ausführliche Infos zu den neuen nationalen Klimaschutzbeiträgen und warum diese so wichtig sind, um das 1,5-Grad-Ziels von Paris in Reichweite zu halten, gibt es auf unserer neuen NDC-Themenseite: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/klima-energie/internationale-klimapolitik/uebereinkommen-von-paris/nationale-klimaschutzbeitraege-ndc

We’re excited to introduce Tobias Zimmermann, our Fox International Fellow visiting Yale from
@freieuniversitaet, Germany!

macmillan.yale.edu/foxfellowshi...
@YaleMacMillan

For almost a quarter of people globally, unemployment is still a top concern.

Is the energy transition the answer to unemployment and the climate crisis?

Take a look at the latest episode of #SystemShiftPodcast where we discuss #GreenJobs, #JustTransition and more on https://act.gp/3QfP0y7

https://www.europesays.com/1805576/ Replace coal with nuclear waste? NW Colorado has mixed feelings #CoalEnergy #CoalMining #Craig #DylanRoberts #Hayden #HaydenStation #JustTransition #KUNC #MoffatCounty #nuclear #NUCLEARENERGY #NuclearWaste #RioBlancoCounty #RouttCounty

https://www.europesays.com/1792652/ The Slovenian town where just transition has its own venue #JustTransition #JustTransitionFund #Novice #slovenia #SlovenianTown #Slovenija #Zasavje

Scale up is a flexible, tailored programme to support Transition groups to focus on developing on particular project or aspect of their work.

It covers one-to-one mentoring, an optional residential and online sessions with groups around the country and it's a fantastic opportunity to invest in scaling up an area of work that's important to you.

Applications are now open, and will close by 3 February, or sooner if all the funding is allocated, so get in their soon! Find out more and apply here: https://transitiontogether.org.uk/training/

In one month, Transitioners from across the country gather for a weekend to connect, inspire & shape the future of our movement at our first Transition Assembly. Book now if you want to be part of it! Childcare & financial support available. Find out more: https://events.transitionmovement.org/transition.../TA2025/

If we don't get this right we'll face excess political inertia, more procrastination.

"...we illustrate the risk that new job creation in the transition to net zero by 2030 will perpetuate and further magnify workforce inequalities. We then discuss how national and international initiatives are attempting to mitigate these risks... supporting national workforce strategies for climate action that have equality, diversity and inclusion at their heart."

#JustTransition

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/climate/articles/10.3389/fclim.2024.1498156/full

We're forming a Just Transition Circle, to deepen our work to put justice, equity and care for all at the centre of our work to foster community-led change.

It's the next step in our Just Transition project, and will be led by people with lived experience of being marginalised in our society and in climate and social movements. We're looking for eight people to bring a mix of voices and experiences and join us in this exploration.

Read more and express interest here:
https://forms.gle/eXHSMmw3aSAaYhye9

Taxing the super-rich is probably necessary but certainly not sufficient. We need system change to prevent the accumulation of non-productive wealth. https://neweconomics.org/2024/11/we-need-more-than-a-tax-on-the-super-rich-to-deliver-climate-and-economic-justice #ClimateCrisis #JustTransition #inequality

Feeling a bit warm today? Yeah, me too.

We don’t have to just sit by and quietly hope the decision makers do the right thing. We can all be part of making change happen.

I’ll be back in Newcastle to join Rising Tide’s blockade of the world’s biggest coal port next week, 22-24 November, alongside my friends Rebecca Vassarotti, Jo Clay and thousands of others.

See you there?

www.risingtide.org.au

#climateaction #peoplesblockade #NoNewCoal #MakePollutersPay
#ClimateCrisis #JustTransition

Fortune Magazine calls the Dutch court ruling overturning the injunction that would have forced Shell to reduce its emissions to 45% of 2019 levels within 6 years a "Pyrrhic victory" for Shell:

-the Court of appeal recognizes that protection from climate change is a human right

-the decision did not rule out enforcement of "more specific" emission reduction strategies in the future, such as forcing them to stop new investments in oil and gas fields

-"Third, the case has already spurred the creation of regulatory obligations to reduce emissions."

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #JustTransition #EUpol

https://fortune.com/2024/11/15/shell-pyrrhic-victory-sets-stage-for-more-corporate-climate-accountability-energy-environment-law/

I have come to the conclusion that the positions by the three BC Political Parties boil down to this. Two are obvious, one, the NDP, much less so.

BC Conservatives: Drill Baby Drill Forever cuz God will eventually save us from our own stupidity, or we'll go to heaven anyway so it doesn't matter.

BC Greens: LNG is just lipstick on a fossil fuel pig. It needs to stop as part of a strategy of transition for workers and the economy. (see link)

BC NDP: We believe in Climate Change and that we should reduce our emissions. But workers vote. So we're going to string the industry along for long enough that people get jobs for awhile and we get donations. Hopefully it'll all just collapse and we can move people to other industries before we actually start shipping this liquified idiocy in large amounts out of BC.

#BCLNG #CPBC #BCNDP #BCGreen #ClimateChange #ClimatePolicy #JustTransition #Workers #BCPoli #CanPoli #EndFossilFuels

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/monique-keiran-study-finds-lngs-greenhouse-gas-footprint-worse-than-coal-9732901

This article elaborates why there is belated but growing attention to the idea that regular workers who happened by circumstance to have been embedded in the fossil fuel industry need to be taken care of.

A pool of resentment and reluctance that can have the same effect on our energy modernization as a gram of carborundum circulating in a 300 kg IC engine. With politics being our means of expression here, it can bring the machine to a grinding halt.

#JustTransition

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/19/theyre-killing-us-aberdeen-braces-for-end-to-north-sea-oil-as-clean-energy-plan-takes-shape

Among other findings/indications:

* Just transition policies can break the carbon deadlock by incentivizing the exit of fossil fuel workers.

* Lack of government credibility, which can be caused by political risks, capacity constraints, or low trust, reduce the prospects of phaseouts and increase their cost.

* Fossil fuel firms can and do use financial and non-financial strategies to reduce the mobility of their workers.

#JustTransition

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2024.2378995?af=R#abstract

"A #JustTransition agenda for investors focused on mining would build on three priorities: respecting communities, protecting workers and developing local economies. With its vast impacts on land, #mining must respect local communities, in particular through securing the free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous Peoples for its activities. "

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/blog/unjust-minerals-what-can-investors-do-to-drive-the-changes-needed-for-a-just-transition-in-the-mining-sector/

A #JustTransition must include communities that now make their living from #OilAndGas.

"Most #OilAndGas communities do not need economic stimulus policies that provide immediate relief. What they need are holistic economic development strategies that can cultivate new industries – building on their existing strengths – that will enable them to prosper into the future."

https://theconversation.com/oil-and-gas-communities-are-a-blind-spot-in-americas-climate-and-economic-policies-237947

According to new Victorian Government report, many workers at Yallourn coal power station in #Gippsland will be able to transition to working in the #offshorewind industry due to the similarity in skills and qualifications between the two industries #energytransition #JustTransition
https://reneweconomy.com.au/victorian-government-outlines-coal-to-offshore-wind-pathways-for-gippsland/

An editor asked if I could do a piece comparing #China and #Japan on #energy #climate transition.

I said I would be happy too - but only if I could also include #humanrights and #labor issues in my piece, as they're crucial to a #justtransition. There are many ethical issues in #solar and #EV #supplychains, and I want to include perspectives highlighting the importance of #DueDiligence regulations to avoid complicity in issues like #Uyghur #forcedlabor.

3 days, no response.