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A Dialogue on a Just and Managed Transition to a Paris-Aligned Low-Carbon Future

9 Aug 2018

To this end, the International how we may continue to advance this critical discussion Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and Oil as Canada faces the opportunities and challenges of Change International (OCI) hosted a Chatham House climate leadership that puts us on track for our fair share 1 The importance of prioritizing a just transition was recently reaffirmed at the June in a safer [...] For communities in the sector, this is an the important opportunity to secure a just transition to existential threat, and a just transition is both necessary ensure workers and dependent communities are treated and a right. [...] Retrieved from might not talk about it, but we should.” task-force-just-transition.html 3 DISCUSSION PAPER: A Dialogue on a Just and Managed Transition to a Paris-Aligned Low-Carbon Future Opportunities for workers in the transition, namely in signal to the sector is critical for markets and to avoid the cleanup and recov [...] Governments should be additional or different framing (with a note that we must collecting much higher taxes and royalties—but at present also not mislead about the scale of the challenge and the government take from the oil industry in Alberta is we should not underestimate the ability to have these among the lowest in the world. [...] An area of concern was the costs of the cleanup of oil “We need a just transition for workers and gas production sites, with some participants feeling that this was a major concern for transition and others and communities, as they are the ones noting that supporting cleanup would be a positive use we want to support; it is not about of transition funds because it could also be a task that extendi
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Winnipeg, MN, CA

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