Just Transitions

Seema Arora-Jonsson is Professor in Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. She works with feminist thinking and questions of sustainability and justice in environmental governance, climate politics and rural development both in the Global South and Global North. Kavya Michael is an environmental- social scientist at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Her research broadly examines environmental change and energy- related issues through a human rights and justice lens. She studies the multiple intersections of climate change, urban- inequality, informality, and inter and intra- regional migration with a focus on the Global South. Manish Kumar Shrivastava is a senior fellow at the Earth Sciences and Climate Change Division, TERI. His current research explores low-carbon transition in India from the perspectives of MSMEs, finance, gender justice, role of sub- national and non- state actors, and relevance of frugality in technological choices and governance for sustainability.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Seema Arora-Jonsson, Kavya Michael and Manish Kumar Shrivastava

Part 1: Peace, Justice and strong institutions

Climate Diplomacy, Just Transitions, and Gender Mainstreaming: India’s Experiences

Dhanasree Jayaram and Shirin Choudhary

Gender and India’s Climate Policy: Bridging the Disconnects

Manish Kumar Shrivastava, Seema Arora-Jonsson and Kavya Michael

Voices from the field: Working for a just climate in India

Seema Arora-Jonsson with Srestha Banerjee, Shloka Nath, Kalyani Raj, R.R. Rashmi, Ginny Shrivastava, Kavya Michael, and Manish Kumar Shrivastava

Commentary

Making the Change Possible

Jayati Ghosh

Part 2: ‘No jobs on a dead planet’: Life on land and forests

How just is the transition to organic farming from a gender lens?

Aditi Kapoor

Adivasi and Forest Feminism: The path to Just Transitions through the Forest Rights Act

Sanghamitra Dubey and Astha Saxena

Coal over forests, displacement over community rights?: Lessons for a just climate future from forest-dwelling communities in Hasdeo Aranya

Ruchira Talukdar

Commentary

9 Transitions, policy, and implementation through a feminist lens

Edward R. Carr

Part 3: Clean and Affordable energy – for whom and at what cost?

Negotiating a just transition: the case of utility-scale solar in semi-arid southern India

Uttara Narayan, Vishwajeet Poojary, Tarul Jain and Ulka Kelkar

Low-carbon development and women entrepreneurs: A case study of fly-ash brick industry in Bihar

Gitika Goswami, Manish Kumar Shrivastava, Ria Sinha and Alpana Gupta

Engendering the energy value chain: Evidence from India

Mini Govindan, Rashmi Murali and Dhairya Dholak

Barriers and Enablers of Gender Just Climate Action: Examples from India

Kavya Michael

Commentary

Energy Alternatives - A view from the global North

Susan Buckingham

Epilogue

Engendering Sustainability Transitions - A Prerequisite for a Just Society

Index