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Elia’s consumer-centric market design and hackathon in Belgium
Elia, the Belgian transmission grid operator, has published a white paper on a consumer-centric and sustainable electricity system. The proposed consumer-centric market design outlines the group’s vision to create value for all and trigger innovation for decarbonisation. To…
Youth Sustainable Energy Hub Progress Report
The Youth Sustainable Energy Hub Progress Report showcases 98 youth projects from around the world that have contributed to promoting clean energy sources and other aspects of sustainable development in their communities, countries and regions. Its objective is to demonstrate…
SYSTEMIC in Belgium
The SYSTEMIC (Say Yes to Stem in the Classroom) project aims to increase young Europeans’ interest in STEM education. For teachers, the project will provide new pedagogical tools to enable them to teach STEM topics differently and develop new teaching approaches. In close…
SDG7 Academy in Panama
Panama’s Ministry of Energy allied with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation to create a virtual school focused on the clean energy transition, where young people can attend courses delivered by experts in the field of energy. Based on Sustainable Development Goal 7 “Affordable and…
EU Youth for a Just Transition toolkit
To help engage young people in the clean energy transition and just transition for impacted communities, the EU’s Youth for a Just Transition toolkit provides a pathway for inputs from youth into execution of the Just Transition Fund. It offers principles, best practices and…
Global Youth Energy Outlook
The Global Youth Energy Outlook is a major youth-led research project designed to collect perspectives on the energy transitions from over 30 000 young people all around the world. It is one of the programmes of the Canada-based Student Energy, a global youth-led organisation…
UN Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
The UN Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change consists of seven young environmental activists from all across the world. In a context of ever-rising international youth climate activism, the UN Secretary General established this group in July 2020 to ensure young people’s voices…
SDG7 Youth Constituency
The SDG7 Youth Constituency is the energy working group of the Major Group for Children and Youth, mandated by UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/67/290 to facilitate youth engagement in the review of Sustainable Development Goals. The constituency acts as a global network of…
LPG subsidy reform in Indonesia
The Indonesian government started to design a new LPG subsidy scheme in 2016, to target the subsidy specifically for poor households, small businesses, fishers and farmers. To achieve this, the Parliament proposed a solution to use the unified poverty database of Indonesia for…
The European Commission’s Social Climate Fund
The proposed EU regulation creating a Social Climate Fund is meant to help EU citizens meet the social and economic costs of the climate and energy transitions. It was adopted by the Commission on 14 July 2021 as part of the 'fit for 55' legislative package. Under the 'fit for…
Canada carbon pricing policy
The Pan-Canadian Approach to Pricing Carbon Pollution, released in October 2016, set a ‘federal benchmark’ (or price floor) requiring all provinces and territories to implement carbon pricing systems with a certain level of stringency, while also ensuring the provinces and…
US Strategic and Critical Materials Review
In February 2021, the US president issued the Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains, which directed a comprehensive review of supply chain risks to inform the government’s strategy to rebuild resilient, diverse and secure domestic manufacturing capacities. As part of this…
Brazil’s ethanol production programme
Brazil’s ethanol production programme, “Proalcohol”, has helped reduce national dependence on fossil fuel imports, improving energy security and creating new industries and jobs in the process. Created in the context of the oil crisis of the 1970s and consequent spike in fuel…
Turkey’s Renewable Energy Resource Areas
In 2016, the Turkish government introduced the Renewable Energy Resource Areas (YEKA) strategy, a tender process to procure the production of renewable energy in renewable energy zones, which are deemed most suitable for renewable energy generation. The first auctions were…
Japan’s history of energy efficiency policies
Japan was the fourth-largest crude oil importer, the largest importer of liquefied natural gas and the third-largest importer of coal in the world in 2019 . In 2019, fossil fuels accounted for 88% of Japan’s total primary energy supply, the sixth-highest share among IEA…
International Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technology retrofit programme
Retrofitting older buildings will be a particularly important component of clean energy transitions, especially given the age of building stock and costs associated with inefficient use of energy. In the United States, around 60% of multifamily buildings were built prior to 1980…
France’s “MaPrimeRénov” Programme
Since 1 January 2020, the tax credit for energy transition (CITE) and the programme “Habiter Mieux Agilité”, led by the national housing agency (ANAH) merged into a single grant called "MaPrimeRénov’". This grant can be used by homeowners to partially cover the cost of…
Guyana’s Hinterland Electrification Programme
As part of Guyana’s Hinterland Energy Strategy from 2013, the Hinterland Renewable Energy project was launched in 2014 to provide energy access to rural households that are not connected to the national grid. As of 2014, 11 540 solar home systems had been installed in nearly 200…
Indonesia’s micro hydro plants
Catholic Pastor Marselus Hasan from Reno village, Flores initiated a micro-hydro power project in his village after seeing how the villagers suffered from unreliable electricity due to the daily maintenance required to repair generators. Contributions from villagers to cover…
Biomass gasification in rural areas in Brazil
Brazil developed biomass gasification to expand electricity access in rural areas. Between 2002 and 2005, research institutions developed the GASEIFAMAZ pilot project , which consisted of testing two imported, small-scale biomass gasification plants in isolated communities in…
Kenya’s progress on electricity access
Kenya has seen rapid growth in electricity access, from 20% in 2013 to nearly 85% in 2019 . This significant progress rests on the country’s National Electrification Strategy , which provides a roadmap to achieving universal energy access by 2022. The Strategy uses a…
US “Apps for Energy” competition
In 2012, as part of the US government’s efforts to promote energy savings, the US Department of Energy launched the first-ever “Apps for Energy” challenge. The programme offered USD 100 000 in cash prices to software developers that build applications for mobile phones and…
China’s clean cooking projects
China’s policy makers have been promoting clean cooking options since the 1980s. Over the past two decades, the Ministry of Agriculture has invested in research, standard setting, pilot demonstrations, and industrial development. By the end of 2013, 150 million rural families…
REnewAfrica Initiative
RenewAfrica is a private-sector initiative designed to spur European investments into renewable energy in Africa. Launched in June 2019 by the RES4Africa Foundation, the initiative is backed by 27 industry actors from the European renewable energy sector. Under RenewAfrica,…
Renewable energy zones in Australia
Renewable energy zones (REZs) aim to aggregate several renewable energy generators and storage facilities in a single location to benefit from economies of scale and favourable local resource and investment conditions. State governments across Australia, including New South…
Sustainable Energy For All Universal Energy Facility
With Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) serving as programme manager, the Universal Energy Facility (UEF) was launched as a results-based financing facility to provide incentive payments to qualified organisations for deploying clean energy solutions and providing verified…
Efficient equipment and health services in Sub-Saharan Africa
The World Bank and World Health Organization estimate that only 28–34% of health facilities across sub-Saharan Africa have access to reliable electricity. The implications of improving access can be life-saving. Expanding modern energy and health services is essential to…
Kenya Off-Grid Solar Access Project
The Kenya Off-Grid Solar Access Project (KOSAP) is a flagship project of the Ministry of Energy, financed by the World Bank, which aims at providing electricity and clean cooking solutions in remote, low density and traditionally underserved areas of the country. The project…
Community Cooling Hubs in India
Launched in June 2019, the University of Birmingham is collaborating with the National Centre for Cold-chain Development and several groups in India to develop pilot Community Cooling Hubs. The initiative will help farming communities in India by aggregating demand to optimise…
US Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities
The US president in January issued Executive Order 14008 , “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad,” which established an Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization. The group is co-chaired by the Director of the National…
Panama’s Energy Transition Council
In November 2020, the government of Panama established an Energy Transition Council to provide advice, consultation and accountability for the government’s enactment of the Strategic Guidelines of Panama´s Energy Transition Agenda. Among its thematic areas of focus are universal…
South Africa Presidential Climate Change Coordinating Commission
As part of South Africa’s early institutional efforts to develop a framework for a just transition, the country’s president in December 2020 established the inaugural Presidential Climate Change Coordinating Commission (P4C). The establishment of the committee stems from a…
Task Force: Just Transition for Canadian Coal Power Workers and Communities
As part of its commitment to phase out of conventional coal-fired electricity by 2030, in 2018, the government of Canada established the Task Force on Just Transition for Canadian Coal Power Workers and Communities — to engage coal communities in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nova…
Poland’s just transition for coal workers
The Polish government and trade union representatives have agreed to phase out coal mining by 2049 under a Social Contract. Under the plan, miners will have the right to relocate from closed mines to those still in operation, or receive an early retirement package equal to 80%…
EU sectoral dialogue for electricity
The EU organises social dialogues with employers and workers in a number of sectors that involve discussions, consultations and negotiations. Included among the sectoral social dialogues is one for the electricity sector, which involves the employer organisation Union of the…
EU’s "Initiative for Coal Regions in Transition"
The EU launched the ‘Initiative for Coal Regions in Transition’ as a non-legislative component of the ‘Clean energy for all Europeans’ package to ensure that coal regions are not left behind has part of the transition to clean energy. The initiative – in place since 2017 – is…
Spain’s High-Level Forum on a Just and Inclusive Energy Transition
As part of Spain's recovery, transformation and resilience plan, the government created a high-level forum on a just and inclusive energy transition to discuss progress on the recovery plan's clean energy components. The forum is convened by Spain’s Ministry for the Ecological…
Germany’s Commission on Growth, Structural Change and Employment
As part of its efforts to halve energy-related CO2 emissions by 2030, Germany intends to phase out coal-based power. To reach a broad social consensus on the coal phase-out plan, the federal government established a Commission on Growth, Structural Change and Employment (also…
South Africa’s just transition social dialogue
South Africa has undertaken early national engagement on a just transition for its coal industry in a context where coal accounts for 73% of the country’s energy supply and about 1% of direct formal employment. The Congress of South African Trade Unions initiated the just…
US advanced energy manufacturing tax credit proposal
US Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Steve Daines (R-MT) in March 2021 introduced the American Jobs in Energy Manufacturing Act of 2021 to incentivise local manufacturing of advanced energy technologies, with a focus on rural communities that have seen…
National Coalition for Digital Skills and Jobs in Italy
The Italian Ministry for Technological Innovation and Digitalisation launched the National Coalition for Digital Skills and Jobs in April 2020. In total, 24 national coalitions are active in the European Union as of 2021. The programme stems from another Italian plan that…
Canada’s just transition strategy
In 2016, Canada committed to the phase-out of conventional coal-fired electricity across the country by 2030. However, nearly 50 communities in four provinces still rely on thermal coal mining and coal power for local employment and taxes. In addition to creating a…
Germany’s closure of hard coal mines in the Ruhr and Saar regions
As economic conditions became increasingly challenging for Germany’s hard coal sector, the federal government in the 1990s pursued a tailored engagement strategy with local governments, employers and trade unions that led to an orderly closure of coal mines in the traditional…
Spain just transition strategy
The Spanish government announced the closure of coal mining operations by 31 December 2020 and the redirection of mining subsidies to restructuring coal mining regions. The policy was the result of a deal between the government, unions and the industry to direct EUR 250 million…
Just transition case study for India
A case study on a just transition away from coal in India was carried out by the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in 2021. For India, the shift away from coal will have wide-ranging economic and social implications,…
ILO’s guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) in November 2015 adopted new guidelines to help governments, workers and employers undertake the process of structural change toward greener economies in a way that achieves just outcomes, including decent jobs and social protections.…
Envision Group helps bring cities in China to net zero
Envision Group is one of China’s leading green technology companies, and among the world’s top wind turbine suppliers. More recently, it has supported local governments in China achieve carbon neutrality, in line with China’s national 2060 target. In 2020 Envision Group began…
Japans fuel ammonia strategy
As part of its pathway to carbon neutrality by 2050, Japan announced that it would deploy ammonia for use in thermal power plants. The Ministry of Trade, Economy and Industry set out a target to co-fire a coal generation unit with ammonia at a rate above 50% and to develop a…
Canada hydrogen strategy
Canada sees a sizeable role and competitive advantage in the production, distribution and use of hydrogen given its abundance of feedstocks, skilled workforce and existing position as a leader in intellectual property and export of hydrogen technologies. Hydrogen is expected to…
Viet Nam Action Plan for Methane Emissions Reduction by 2030
Following its endorsement of the Global Methane Pledge (GMP), Viet Nam submitted its Methane Action Plan 2030 (the "Plan"), which outlines the country's methane reduction strategies. The Plan aims to reduce overall methane emissions in the following sectors: cultivation, animal…