Just Energy Transition

Just found a very interesting article about Just Energy Transition in South Africa I would highly recommend to this community. We often talk about "energy transition", "green transition" without thinking about the concrete effects that these plans will have to people on the ground working in these sectors. Women particularly are often overlooked.

The GGKP Gender Expert Group has worked on this topic, preparing a report on how a Just Energy Transition could look like and how to assess projects through just energy transition lenses.The report will be published soon. Luisa Kim and Sohna Ngum - I think the South African policy was also examined, do you have any insights?

Also, I am very fascinated by the gender aspects of coal-dependent communities, in the context of a green transition. Margaux Granat are you still working on this topic? if yes, could you share something about it?

? Learning opportunity for students in Africa!

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and African Leadership University have developed a one-hour lesson plan for educators to introduce young people to the circular economy?

Submission to the accompanying design challenge is due 28 Feb ? http://ggkp.org/ZNo

Environmental Impact Bonds Financing Green Infrastructure

I wanted to share how steaming clothes can help the environmentby reducing clothes waste and the use of chemicals harmful to the environment.

Financing Water Security and Green Growth (authored by Robert C. Brears) will be published end of May with Oxford University Press

https://medium.com/mark-and-focus/financing-water-security-and-green-gr…

Introducing the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel); a substantial contribution to The Bluegreen Revolution...

This Ocean Panel is a unique global initiative led by serving heads of state and governments from around the world. Primary goals of the Panel are building capacity and momentum for a more sustainable ocean economy, informed by leading global experts and practitioners (Ocean Panel, 2022).

In 2020, the Ocean Panel released “Transformations;” an ambitious ocean action agenda to transform how we produce, protect and prosper from the ocean, including the shared ambition by all participating countries to sustainably manage 100% of their national ocean area. It also sets out priority actions across five critical areas – wealth, health, equity, finance, knowledge – to achieve a sustainable ocean economy by 2030 (Ocean Panel, 2022).

Ocean Panel countries have pledged significant ocean related commitments on international platforms, such as the Our Ocean Conference and the UN Ocean Conference; key to catalyzing action, driving investments, and delivering impact in priority areas. The first report of progress towards the Panel’s agenda shows the number of country commitments has continued to increase each year and that these commitments are followed by meaningful action, with the vast majority either completed (54 percent) or in progress (40 percent), sending a strong signal for effective implementation and accountability. The Ocean Panel has highlighted the link between a healthy, sustainable ocean economy and the achievement of the wider sustainable development agenda.
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Catch the Bluegreen Wave...

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. Abbie Hoffman

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. Emma Goldman

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

The earth is what we all have in common. Wendell Berry

Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. David Attenborough

Touch the earth, feel the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. Henry Beston

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. Barry Commoner

Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs. Rachel Carson

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences. Frank Herbert

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place. Margaret J. Wheatley

Relationships are the core message of ecology. Frances Moore Lappé

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor specialty. Garrett Hardin

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the other way around. Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day Founder

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy. Gregory Colbert

We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations. John Paul II

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Chief Seattle

Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land. Luna Leopold

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. Margaret Mead

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. Marianne Williamson

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman
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Are you ready for the Bluegreen Wave (Revolution)???...

According to the World Bank Group, “the Blue Economy is sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods and jobs, and ocean ecosystem health and encompasses many activities.”

"All economic activities related to oceans, seas and coasts. It covers a wide range of interlinked established and emerging sectors" - European Commission

"An emerging concept which encourages better stewardship of our ocean or 'blue' resources" - The Commonwealth of Nations

"Blue economy also includes economic benefits that may not be marketed, such as carbon storage, coastal protection, cultural values and biodiversity" - Conservation International

UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG 14) is about "Life below water" and this SDG states to: "Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development."

Why a New Green Revolution
Agricultural productivity gains since the 1950s have resulted from the development of farming systems that rely heavily on external inputs of energy and chemicals to replace management and on-farm resources. The intensity to which the natural environment has been modified to attain this productive capacity has directly resulted in degradation of natural resources; notably land, water, and the biodiversity, that sustain these systems.

Agroecology, Regenerative Agriculture, and Sustainable Development
The science of agroecology is rooted in our collective consideration and comprehension of agriculture and natural history and can be defined as the study of complex interactions between the components, reactions, and processes of the global (natural) environment, and human (anthropogenic) activities associated with agriculture and food systems. It provides the ecological basis for more sustainable farming, as well as the opportunity to characterize or refine the cumulative effects of agriculture activities at watershed, ecoregion, national, and global scales.

As a philosophy and approach to land management and watershed protection in agriculture and farming systems, Regenerative Agriculture explores all aspects of agricultural and food systems as connected through a web—a network of entities who grow, enhance, exchange, distribute, and consume goods and services. It’s about farming and ranching in a style that nourishes people and the earth - specific practices and holistic principles to restore soil and ecosystem health, address inequity, and leave our land, waters, and climate in better shape for future generations (NRDC, 2022).
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I am deeply grateful for especially my family, friends, and Mother Earth in all her glory...there is still time folks, and a Bluegreen Revolution is coming....

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William Arthur Ward

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. Albert Schweitzer

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. Cicero

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Cynthia Ozick

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop

Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture. Kak Sri

He who thanks but with the lips Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving Comes from the heart. J.A. Shedd

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. H. W. Beecher

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley

There is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings. J. R. Moskin

I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of existence. Henry David Thoreau
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Interested in gender in global environmental governance? Have a look at the Gender Climate Tracker!

This platform tracks the progress in integrating gender mandates in environmental policies at the global and national level, checks on women participation in international negotiations while also providing country-specific data and resources.

You can also become a tracker by adding resources to this link https://genderclimatetracker.org/node/12222