Identifying and tracking justice-related indicators can provide data and evidence to design policies that support positive outcomes for all affected stakeholders, minimize unintended and non-desirable changes, enhance transparency and accountability, build trust among stakeholders and facilitate access to finance. The Just Transitions Monitoring Guide provides a step-by-step approach to support the development of a monitoring framework that will enable governments to track the status of a just transition.

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Key monitoring steps for a just transition.

Key Findings:

  • It is important to ensure a just transition towards a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy; support for this transition can be strengthened by establishing a credible monitoring framework to track how it is being implemented.
  • This guide provides high-level considerations for developing a framework to monitor social, economic and environmental indicators that reflect the state of the transition at the national, subnational and local level.
  • A justice lens to monitor social, economic and environmental changes over time can help ensure no one is left behind during a transition.
  • Just transition–related indicators help examine social, economic and environmental changes among distinct groups of people (distributive justice); how inclusive the transition is (procedural justice); and efforts to address past inequities (restorative justice).
  • This guide identifies steps countries can take to better understand and monitor their progress towards achieving a just transition by identifying targets and indicators; collecting and analyzing data to gather insights; and communicating results to provide evidence, inform policies and facilitate a just transition.

Executive Summary:

Climate policies may contribute to positive or negative, intended or unintended impacts across social, economic and environmental dimensions. These may further exacerbate (or reduce) existing social and economic inequities. As countries transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy and pursue development pathways aligned with the 1.5°C Paris Agreement goal, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change emphasizes that this transition be implemented in a manner that is just and inclusive while minimizing negative or social impacts. A just transition towards net zero emissions, as agreed to in the Glasgow Climate Pact, can correct for and avoid perpetuating social, economic and environmental inequalities. When shifting away from conventional and unsustainable production models, social and economic policies can provide support to communities, workers, vulnerable groups and businesses impacted by the transition.

This publication provides guidance to monitor and analyze social, economic and environmental changes that may occur as countries implement policies to transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy. It employs the lens of justice—distributive, procedural and restorative—to understand the changes for different groups.