Publications

This guidance assists community-based organisations and public sector and private sector, and other third sector organisations to identify and propose projects for potential support which will support a Just Transition in the wider Midlands as peat production and power generation end. In keeping...

Regional transitions away from coal mining and coal-based energy generation are complex, not least because they require effort from multiple actors. Coal regions often do not correspond to a particular administrative boundary, and therefore require collaboration across different administrative units...

Mining regions have always undergone a cycle of prospection, operation and eventual closure, whether because resources are depleted, or because further mining becomes uneconomic. When mines close, they can leave behind a legacy of environmental degradation alongside many other challenges. Locations...

European coal regions have been facing the challenge of declining jobs in both coal mining and in coal-fired power plants over the last decades. Upcoming closures of mines and power plants put 160,000 jobs at risk (JRC 2018). This is a challenge to the economy for those regions, which strongly...

In 2016, the Canadian government decided to accelerate the phase-out of coal burning as a means to generate electricity, setting a target to have 90% of the country’s power generated by non-emitting sources (in terms of CO2) by 2030. Four Canadian provinces still produce electricity from coal –...

After the closure of many facilities in the oil and gas sector, which consequently resulted in high and sudden unemployment rates, the Scottish government established a fund to help the affected workers re-skill and further train themselves in order to find employment again. The fund was supported...

Latrobe Valley is situated in the south-eastern part of Australia, in the state of Victoria, with a history of high dependency on coal and heavy industries. It used to be one of Australia’s carbon hotspots, with its ageing power stations using increasingly out-dated technologies and fuelled by low...

The Lewarde Mining History Centre in France is an important example of how cultural heritage has been preserved and at the same time how new economic opportunities for the region have been opened up. It symbolises the transition from a highly industrialised region into a tourist hot spot with a...

New companies often struggle to find a good location to settle in, and post-industrial sites represent an untapped potential for future economic development. The Marshal’s Office of Silesia Voivodeship, in partnership with the Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa-GIG) in Katowice...