Activities of the Group of Experts in the field of Just Transition include:
Activities of the Task Force on Just Transition
- Webpage: For more details please visit a webpage of the Task Force on Just Transition
Work on Mapping Albania’s readiness for green and just transition in post-coal mining areas
- Webpage: Webpage dedicated to the project
- Document: Project Document
- Document: Study: JUST TRANSITION ASSESSMENT OF ALBANIA; Sector Decarbonization and the Just Transition Framework Applied to Coal Mining
- Event: Fact Finding Mission to Albania
- Event: Workshop on Mapping Albania’s readiness for green and just transition in post-coal mining areas
- Event: Final workshop on Mapping Albania’s readiness for green and just transition in post-coal mining areas
Work on mine closure in Albania and Serbia
- Document: Study on Technical, principle-based guidelines for designing and implementing a programme for efficient, safe and environmentally conscious mine closure in Albania and Serbia
- Event: Workshop on Mine Closure in Albania and Serbia
- Event: Workshop on Just Transition in Mining Communities and Potential for Development of Geothermal Energy
Work on Coal Demand Dynamics in Tajikistan until 2050
- Document: Study: In-Depth Analysis of Coal Demand Dynamics in Tajikistan until 2050
- Event: Workshop on the dynamics of coal demand in Tajikistan until 2050 and viability of replacing coal with alternative domestic energy sources
Work on other uses of coal and alternative uses of coal mining in Tajikistan
- Document: Study: Exploring opportunities for other uses of coal and alternative uses of coal mining in the conditions of the Tajikistan’s coal sector
- Event: Workshop presenting the study to the local stakeholders (upcoming in 2025)
Work on Just Energy Transition in Uzbekistan
- Webpage: Promoting Just Energy Transition in Uzbekistan
- Event: Launching ceremony of the joint project Promoting Just Energy Transition in Uzbekistan
Central Asian Regional Platform for Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange
- Webpage: Webpage dedicated to the Central Asian Regional Platform for Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange
Project on Transition of the Energy Sector
- Document: Project Proposal
Other relevant links and information
- Key Documents
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- Coal in the 21st Century: Meeting Sustainable Development Goals and Managing Investor Expectations (ECE/ENERGY/GE.4/2024/4)
- Just Transition – the check list (ECE/ENERGY/GE.4/2023/7)
- Responding to the challenges of a just transition in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe sustainable energy subprogramme (ECE/ENERGY/2021/14)
- Cultural issues: managing the social aspects of the transition of industries along the coal value chain and coal-dependent regions (ECE/ENERGY/GE.4/2022/4)
- Events
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- Session on Developing human capital for a just energy transition in Central Asia
- Session on Net Zero Mining and Energy Transition Agenda
- Just Transition Session at the 32nd Session of the Committee of Sustainable Energy
- Panel discussion: Repurposing coal infrastructure and diversifying local economies to enable a just transition in coal regions, at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum
- Clean Energy, Climate and the Built Environment Workshop
- Methane in the Context of the Transition of the Coal Sector
- Capacity-Building Workshop and Stakeholders’ Consultations on Capture and Use of CMM and Transition of the Coal Mining Sector in Ukraine
- Workshop: Post-Mining Perspectives: Capture and Use of Abandoned Mine Methane and Mine Reclamation and Revitalization of Post Mining Areas
- Webpages