A truly just [energy] transition rests on five interlinked dimensions:
- Recognition justice: respecting the rights, knowledge systems and lived experiences of marginalized communities.
- Procedural justice: ensuring inclusive, democratic and transparent decision-making.
- Distributive justice: reducing inequality by fairly sharing both the benefits and burdens of the transition.
- Remedial justice: redressing past and ongoing harm through structural change and meaningful reparation.
- Transformative intent: going beyond avoiding harm to tackle the root causes of injustices. This also means having a long-term vision, working within existing structures while enabling the emergence of fairer alternatives that dismantle colonialism. https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/research-publications/unjust-transition-reclaiming-the-energy-future-from-climate-colonialism/
QED. There are more different types of unjust transitions than there are just ones.
Why?
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