The planet is experiencing a climate crisis. The international community must pivot away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy. It must also do so in an equitable way, so that the most vulnerable populations do not shoulder the burden of transition.
The Global Just Transition project will provide updates on the status of Green New Deals, ecosocial pacts, and just transition plans around the world. Upcoming events will cover the European Green Deal, the South Korean Green New Deal, and new environmental organizing in Russia. We are also collaborating on a project on the financing of fossil fuel projects in Africa, the limits of economic growth and buen vivir, and the challenge of local capacity to handle the influx of Green transition funds.
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Upcoming Events
Responding to Green Colonialism:
Voices from Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East
April 18 @ noon, IPS conference room (1301 Conn. Ave. NW, Washington DC)
Watch online by registering here
Event Archives
Labor and Green Colonialism
with Everline Aketch, Felipe Diaz, Igor Díaz, and Ibis Fernández (December 7, 2023)
Rare Earth Elements
Their Role in the Green Transition: Impact and Conflicts Map
November 20, 2023
Debts and Reparations: A Call to Global Action
A short video about a gathering in Jackson, Mississippi
November 2023
Climate Justice: Report from the Global South
with Nnimmo Bassey, Edgardo Lander, and Mary Ann Manahan (September 25, 2023)
Challenging Mining Corporations at the International Level
with Katharine Booth, Catherine Coumans, and Lee Tan (June 27, 2023)
How Russia’s War Against Ukraine Impacts the Planet
with Anna Ackermann and Yevheniia Zasiadko (April 27, 2023)
Geopolitics of Strategic Minerals
with Debamanyu Das (April 6, 2023)
TEQs: Could They Spark a Global Just Transition?
moderated by Jack Santa Barbara with Shaun Chamberlin, Ivonne Yanez, and Stan Cox (March 21, 2023)
Launch of the Ecosocial Energy Manifesto from the Peoples of the South
moderated by Liliana Buitrago with Maristella Svampa, Trusha Reddy, and Ashish Kothari (February 10, 2023)
Free Trade vs. Just Green Trade
moderated by Jen Moore with Luciana Ghiotto, Karen Hansen-Kuhn, and Manuel Perez Rocha (December 16, 2022)
Can the World Save the World
moderated by Miriam Lang with Jayati Ghosh, Madhuresh Kumar, and Jens Martens (December 14, 2022)
Getting the Unsustainable Here to the Sustainable There
moderated by John Feffer with Vedran Horvat, Susan Krumdieck, Simon Michaux, and Renata Nitta (December 12, 2022)
What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South
moderated by Liliana Buitrago with Alberto Acosta, Tom Athanasiou, and Meena Raman (September 28, 2022)
The Future of China’s Green Revolution
moderated by Tobita Chow with Liu Hongqiao and Jennifer Turner (September 21, 2022)
Can the Green New Deal Go Local?
moderated by Rebeca Leber with Luis Aguirre-Torres, Julia Peak, and Susie Strife (August 9, 2022)
Redesigning the Economy for Sustainability and Social Justice
with Ashish Kothari, Dorothy Guerrero, Katharine Nora Farrell, and Josh Farley (July 28, 2022)
Rare Earth Elements: The Global Supply Chain
with Jojo Nem Singh (July 15, 2022)
Do We Need a Universal Basic Income?
with Ruben Lo Vuolo, Erin Coltrera, Ailynn Torress, and Amaia Perez Orozco (May 10, 2022)
Rare Earth Elements: Q and A
with Julie Klinger (May 4, 2022)
The U.S. Green New Deal: Promises, Policies, Prospects
with Saul Levin, Rajiv Sicora, and Susie Strife, moderated by Brett Fleishman (April 12, 2022)
The Impact of Green New Deals on Latin America (y en espanol)
with Ulrich Brand, Esperanza Martinez, Rajiv Sicora, and Enrique Viale, moderated by Miriam Lang and Jen Moore (February 16, 2022)
India and the Future of the Planet
with Jayati Ghosh, Ashish Kothari, and Basav Sen (February 2, 2022)
A Just Transition for Latin America (y en espanol)
with Carmen Aliaga, Pablo Bertinat, Breno Bringel, and Tatiana Roa
and moderated by Manuel Perez-Rocha and Liliana Buitrago (January 19, 2022)
Russia and the Green New Deal: Light at the End of the Tunnel?
with Vasily Yablokov, Tatiana Lanshina, and Arshak Makichyan (December 10, 2021)
Korea’s Green New Deal: Myths and Realities
with Lee Taedong, Kim Joojin, Hong Jong Ho, and Kwon Yoo-Jung and moderated by Koohan Paik-Mander (November 17, 2021)
The European Green Deal: A Step Forward, Sideways, or Backward?
with Ann Pettifor, Dusan Pajevic, Asad Rehman, and Clara Bourgin (October 12, 2021)
Articles and Reports
The Critical Missing Piece from the U.S. Energy Transition
Competition with China over minerals is meaningless if the prize is a dead planet.
DRC Bleeds Conflict Minerals for Green Growth
Congolese activists, facing violence and colonial exploitation, call for a green transition that puts justice first.
After Dubai
Towards a “just, orderly, and equitable” fossil fuel phase out.
Labor and Green Colonialism in the Global South
What will happen to workers in the transition to clean energy?
Mapping the Impacts and Conflicts of Rare-Earth Elements
A new map and report explore the challenges for a green and digital transition.
The Push to Dig Up Rare Earth Materials in the Black Hills
The demand for critical raw materials imperils the environment and the communities that live near the Devil’s Tower in Wyoming.
The EU and US Make a Bid for the World’s Critical Raw Materials
The EU and US are considering a club to ensure access to the world’s limited supply of critical raw materials, but are they banking on out-of-date geopolitics?
More Butterflies, Fewer Billionaires: Unrigging the Global Economy
The world has one last shot at reducing global inequality and saving the planet.
A Global Maui Moment
The most devastating war on the planet is the war waged against the planet.
Challenging Mining Corporations at the International Level
What can you do when you’ve run out of options at the local and national levels?
In other outlets:
L’avenir de la révolution verte chinoise, Investig’action, November 14, 2022
The Five Plagues Testing Humanity, TomDispatch, March 30, 2022
Hacia una transición justa en América Latina, La Jornada, January 31, 2022 (en espanol)
The Trouble With Transitions, TomDispatch, October 5, 2021 (y en español)