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Week 4 Flashcards

1
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Climate change just transitions trade-off

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adaption
mitigation
sustainable development that is needed

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Transitions

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Context specific and multiple can happen at once. Depend on willigness, agency, development priorities, capacity, governance and policy arrangements

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JUST transition

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Justice: distributional, procedural, resorative
Universal: recognition, cosmopolitarianism
Space: local, national or international
Time: speed and timeline

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Distributional justice

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specific impacts and subjects that are most affected, the evidence needed for distributive justice

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Distributive justice

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Sharing of benefits and burdens

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Procedural justice

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ensuring demands of minorities

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Restorative justice

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recognize present and historial inequalities

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Climate finance (justice and equity)

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Low adaptive capacity countries will need to see a shift in burden of responsibility as they are not equipped to take it on

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Energy paradox of Africa

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They have a lot of oil but still not everyone has energy

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Fossil fuels in Africa

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Can be utilized as transitional asset to create short term funding and industralization for human capital while planning for renewable energy

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Just transitions blindspots

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  • stranded assets
  • economic and trade implications
  • political economy
  • energy security
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Problems in Africa

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False dichotomy: fossils or RE not and
They still need oil for their industralization but already get a strong regulation and mitigation
If oil get stranded they have nothing else
People need to leave for work
No social security
Gender inequality

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Political economy

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  • Distribution of wealth
  • How goods and services are produced
  • Who owns what
  • which ideas, power and resources are conceptualized, negotiated and implemented
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5 pillars of recommendation of green transition and dimensions

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  • Decarbonization
  • Diversification
  • Democratization
  • Decentralization
  • Digitalization
    Dimensions: time, capacity, agency, scope, inclusion
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15
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5 traditions of planetary justice framework

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Liberal egalitarianism
Cosmopolitan theories
Capabilities approach
Liberatarianism view
Critical perspectives

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16
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Liberal egalitarianism

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value of equality, personal freedom and personal responsibility
justice: national welfare state
borders are important
Social positions are there but are not part of the problem

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Cosmopolitan theories

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Global fair distribution
Global citizenship (no borders)
Justice: global satisfaction of human needs, global governance

18
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Capabilities approach

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Interpersonal differrences among people
Justice: everyone should have access to the same capabilities
norms and religion are important

19
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Libertarianism view

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Free market
No governance intervention
only philantrophy as redistribution of wealth

20
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Critical perspectives

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Break down of suppressive structures
Gives a voice to minorities
Justice: national oppressive structures need to be broken down everywhere and rich should help poor globally
Personal norms and morals are important

21
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4 risks of making a B team

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B team: TNO leaders that focus on being green
- policy and legal risk
- technology risk
- market risk
- reputation risk

22
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Steps toward just transition

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Enterprise-wide process that plans emissions reduction efforts through; retention and redeployment, skills training, new job creation, social inclusion, community renewal

engage
plan
enact

23
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Tensions that emerg with just transition and activism

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Sustainability inclusivity
Sustainability recognition
Sustainability equity

24
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Sustainability inclusivity tension

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rapid and bold policy vs maximizing procedural justice and access to decision making for everyone
—> timely and bold action

Just transition
Sustainable exclusivity (action no incl.)
Inclusive inertia (incl no action)
Unsustainable exclusivity

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Sustainability recognition tension

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Sustainability performance vs recognition of diverse value systems and rights (for minorities and rich)
—> measurable and verifiable + include all non-commodified resources

Just transition
Sust mis recognition (time + sust no recog)
Unsust recognition (recog but no sust)
Unsust mis recognition

26
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Sustainability equity tension

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achieving sustainability performance vs equitable distribution of benefits and burdens
—> max environmental impact + min economic impact

Just transition
Sust inequity (sust only for the rich)
Unsust equity (no sust but for all)
Unsust inequity

27
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3 guidance for just transition

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  1. There might be tradeoffs between procedural justice and sustainability but does not have to be bad
  2. Prioritizing sustainability will not always produce the most socially favored conditions
  3. Focus on labor unjustice during the transition
28
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justice and equity climate change crisis

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burden is experiences differently across societal sectors
indigenous communities face multiple threads and are subject to myriad power dynamics

29
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What do the frameworks answer (egilti etc.) (3)

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  • subjects of justice and their relationships
  • The metrics and principles of justice
  • Which mechanism should be used/supported to achieve justice
30
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Corporate environmentalism 2 ways of looking

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Timing: 3 political objectives
Storyline: 5 components

31
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Timing of corporate environmentalism

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  • legitimize activities + safeguard business social license to operate in face of climate change
  • increase corporate power on problem definition with climate governance
  • define the economic/tech solutions + (non)regulations to tackle this issue
32
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5 components of environmentalism storyline

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  • initial situation
  • complications
  • possible reaction + likely course of action
  • resolution
  • final situation
33
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Frustrated hero

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Businesses all start their storyline as frustrated hero —> willing to do more with the right regulations: regulation for business with business instead of just implementing regulations

34
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3 principles for just transition International Chamber of Commerce

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  1. Include into nationally determined contributions
  2. General public policy recommendation: training, income etc.
  3. Include business as deliverer of just transition (businesses as key stakeholders)

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