IPC–MERCATOR ANALYSIS May 2024 - UNVEILING THE JUST TRANSITION: POLICY IMPLICATIONS AND DESCRIPTIVE DATA

The situation in Zonguldak was 2000s, this phaseout continued with a series of described as particularly dire, with a lack of privatizations and/or closures of the pits.18 new investments and the prevalence of illegal The Soma Coal Basin, including coal pits in the pits instead of corporate companies, prompting Soma District of Manisa and the Kınık District of many to leave their hometowns in sear. [...] Until the significant issues facing workers in the industry, mid-2000s, Turkish Coal Enterprises, the main underscoring the economic and social challenges 22 SEE for coal, operated the majority of the coal in the mining sector. [...] This support ensures that Soma’s tenders in this case is the state guarantee of mining operations are financially more stable, purchase provided to the coal firms, which with regular payments and better wages and serve as the sole customer of coal in Türkiye working conditions compared to those in many irrespective of the amount of coal extracted. [...] 4 UNVEILING THE JUST TRANSITION: POLICY IMPLICATIONS AND DESCRIPTIVE DATA INSIGHTS FOR COAL MINERS IN TÜRKIYE MAY 2024 | IPC–MERCATOR ANALYSIS This disparity potentially creates resistance to comparisons are restricted to the coal mining exiting the coal industry, thereby complicating sector and other sectors that have employed coal the social acceptability of the transition and miners at some poi. [...] The Initiative is based on the premise paper belong solely to the authors and do not that the acquisition of knowledge and the reflect IPC’s official position.