Annual Report 2022-23.indd

In addition to the report release, the team individually met with district collectors and DMF representatives of all five focus district as well as with the Chief Secretary of the state to discuss pathways to implement solutions explored in the study. [...] The iFOREST side-event – Just Transition of Informal Workers and Informal Economy – at the COP 27 at Sharm El- Sheikh, Egypt, brought the challenges and considerations of informal workers and the informal economy. [...] The event was the first in the country to bring together global, national, state and district level voices and expertise to a common platform to discuss policy, state planning and action, learnings from the international experiences and financing a Just Transition. [...] The webinar was organized against the backdrop of the increasing incidences of forest fires in the country, and their adverse impact on the forests, especially biodiversity loss and carbon emissions. [...] Webinar on Just Transition of unprofitable and End-of-Life mines in India October 2022 In the Webinar on the Just Transition of unprofitable and End-of-Life mines in India, the erstwhile Secretary of the Ministry of Coal, Anil Jain, experts from Coal India Limited’s (CIL’s) key subsidiaries, labour unions, policy researchers and civil society organisations released the report and discussed the cur.