2024 Reports

Global Guidance for Just Transition Policy

Dell’Amico, Anna; Brauch, Martin Dietrich; Wallis, Lara; Meise, Alexandra A.K.

In 2015, the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted Guidelines for a Just Transition Towards Environmentally Sustainable Economies and Societies for All, providing authoritative and valuable international guidance for just transitions. CCSI has conducted a comparative analysis of the application of the ILO Guidelines in South Africa and Germany and examined the extent to which the ILO Guidelines address energy transition challenges facing developing countries.

The CCSI report, Global Guidance for Just Transition Policy, provides detailed context on South Africa’s and Germany’s national socio-political and energy conditions and policies, and comprehensively examines the legal and policy instruments adopted by both countries—the Just Transition Framework in South Africa and the Coal Exit Laws in Germany—and their application of the ILO Guidelines. Both countries historically relied on domestic coal production and are forerunners in national-level just transition policymaking in their respective regions.