Ocean Nexus presents "Critical Steps for Just Transition: Equitable Climate Change Mitigation and Energy Transition Planning" on Wednesday, October 23, 2024.
How can we make renewable energy socially equitable? In the race to adopt renewables, who benefits-and who bears the hidden costs?
Join us and learn about critical steps toward a just transition, featuring community-centered solutions that make climate change mitigation just and equitable.
Renewable energy sources like offshore wind and solar hold transformative potential for a future with cleaner air, healthier ecosystems, and sustainable communities-but what challenges must we address to make this transition equitable? What are the often-overlooked costs of clean energy resources in the drive for renewable adoption? How are these consequences distributed across communities? What strategies can ensure energy transition planning prioritizes marginalized populations?
Details:
oceannexus.org/webinar/justtransition
Speakers:
Matthew Jerome Schneider
Collaborating Professor, Ocean Nexus
Co-Director, The SEA Lab
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Criminology, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Leah Fusco
Research Fellow, Ocean Nexus
Research Associate, Equitable Transitions Coalition, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Kurt Ellison
Maritime Policy Manager, Climate Solutions
Student Fellow, University of Washington, Ocean Nexus
Will Kammin
Research Fellow, NW Clean Energy Atlas, Clean Energy Transition Institute
Student Fellow, University of Washington, Ocean Nexus
Yoshitaka Ota
Director, Ocean Nexus
Professor, Department of Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island
Timestamps:
YOSHITAKA OTA
0:00 Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Introduction
1:00 Why “Critical Steps for Just Transition”?
MATTHEW JEROME SCHNEIDER
5:00 Reimagining the renewable energy transition: The need to make the just transition more than just a transition
11:00 What is the “Just Transition”?
12:28 Common uses of Just Transition framework
13:43 Low carbon energy production
14:57 Offshore wind farms and solar field
15:43 Likely Limitations to a Just Transition
16:56 Consequences of renewable energies
19:50 Current Market Framing and Invisibilized Processes
20:47 What can we do?
21:21 How can we ensure the renewable energy transition is truly a just transition?
24:00 Radical paths forward
25:18 Radical incrementalism and the need for a radical reimagining of the renewable energy transition
LEAH FUSCO
27:17 Intersectional GBA+ to support just energy transition
28:34 Gender-based analysis plus and intersectional theory
30:13 Intersecting identities and power structures
KURT ELLISON
34:30 Climate Solutions: Maritime Policy Manager
36:13 Just Transition: equity and assumptions
37:23 Changing Tack: Equity, Maritime Labor, and Offshore Wind in the Pacific Northwest
38:15: Challenges for Just Transition frameworks based in offshore wind in Oregon and Washington State
40:16 Oregon Floating Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap with Exit Ramps
40:37 A Proposed Offshore Wind Engagement Framework for Washington State
WILL KAMMIN
41:46 Ocean Nexus and Clean Energy Transition Institute: Findings on Community Benefit Agreement (CBA) in Washington State and California
42:50 Expansion of environmental justice into civil justice and human rights
43:57 Framing questions and results ‘What do they love?’ ‘What provides a sense of pride?’
45:19 When we are looking at CBAs to help these communities, we have to focus on the socio economic crises, such as affordable housing
45:33 Funding challenges and volatility: Bidding credits/initial lease bid (California & Maine)
46:36 Co-creation of benefits
47:08 New opportunities to innovate in Just Transition space
DISCUSSION
48:40 For Just Transition: what do you think is the most important thing we need to focus on: climate, labor, or social issues? / Matthew Jerome Schneider
52:43 For your Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+) approach, how do you measure the success? / Leah Fusco
55:13 Is more jobs the answer to your demand? / Kurt Ellison
56:40 For housing, is it money and funding or financial systems that need to be there to bring money to the community or something else we need to look for? / Will Kammin
CLOSING COMMENTS
1:00:54 Holistic approach to interventions / Matthew Jerome Schneider
1:01:32 Our role as scholars / Leah Fusco