Making the shift to a clean energy system requires major investment by governments, businesses, and households. One chief concern for policy makers is ensuring such investments increase affordability, and access, of energy services and technology for all, not just for select parts of the population or the world. The new 'Global Commission on People-Centred Clean Energy Transitions: Designing for fairness’ explores how the design of clean energy policies can deliver greater affordability, optimal distribution of benefits and costs, and more equity in energy systems.
The Global Commission is co-chaired by Teresa Ribera, Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, and Alexandre Silveira de Oliveira, Brazil’s Minister of Mines and Energy. It comprises energy, climate and labour leaders from governments around the world, along with high-level representatives from international organisations and labour, Indigenous Nations and Peoples, youth and civil society groups. This paper is the first output of the Global Commission and it is being released at the invitation of Minister Silveira to provide input into G20 energy deliberations.
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Table of Contents
- Key policy design considerations for affordable and fair transitions 1
- Key policy design considerations for affordable and fair transitions 3
- Introduction 3
- Key points 6
- 1. How to realise decent jobs for workers in clean energy transitions? 6
- 2. How can social inclusion be integrated into workforce development policies? 6
- 3. How to deliver universal access to affordable energy as part of clean energy transitions? 6
- 4. How can policies ensure low-income and marginalised communities are able to afford clean energy technologies? 6
- 5. How to ensure clean energy policies maximise socio-economic benefits? 6
- 6. How can policy design determine the fair distribution of benefits and costs? 7
- 7. How to put meaningful participation of all stakeholders at the heart of clean energy transitions? 7
- 1. How to realise decent jobs for workers in clean energy transitions? 8
- 2. How can social inclusion be integrated into workforce development policies? 13
- 3. How to deliver universal access to affordable energy as part of clean energy transitions? 18
- 4. How can policies ensure low-income households and marginalised communities are able to afford clean energy technologies? 23
- 5. How to ensure clean energy policies maximise socio-economic benefits? 28
- 6. How can policy design determine the fair distribution of benefits and costs? 31
- 7. How to put meaningful participation of all stakeholders at the heart of clean energy transitions? 35
- Annexes 40
- Annex 1 – Commission members 40
- Annex 2 – Recommendations from the 2021 Global Commission on People-Centred Clean Energy Transitions 42
- References 43
