Date: November 5 / 11:30-12:30 Glasgow (GMT) (12:30-13:30 Brussels (CET))

Location: COP26 Online - EU side events, Room O (see the full EU side events programme here)

Session abstract

Faced with an accelerating clean energy transition, coal regions in the EU, neighbouring countries and beyond are striving to ensure citizens, workers and local communities are not left behind. Achieving a just transition will take time and effort but coal regions in the EU and beyond have made significant progress over the past few years and can inspire coal regions globally.

Join us as European and international practitioners share their insights and lessons on how to ensure a just transition away from coal.

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Session details

There are tried and tested approaches that can facilitate change, agency and mobilisation, even for regions at earlier stages of the transition process. Despite its short and long-term challenges, there are ways to accelerate the transition away from coal which recognise that legitimate transition processes are dependent on the inclusion of affected communities and groups.

The discussion will focus on the following:

• Actions for achieving an effective and inclusive mobilisation and organisation of coal transition at the regional and local level
• Challenges of regional transition journeys and how they can be addressed
• Regional transition success stories
• Promoting coal transition in regions that are at an early stage of the transition process or have not yet commenced

Speakers

• Robert Pollock, Senior Advisor, Secretariat of the EU Initiative for coal regions in transition (Moderator)

• Srestha Banerjee, Director, Just Transition International Forum for Environment, Sustainability & Technology (iFOREST), India

• María Belarmina Díaz Aguado, Director General of Energy, Mining and Reactivation, Government of Asturias, Spain

• Maciej Sytek, President of the Board of ARR Konin, Eastern Wielkopolska, Poland

• Dimitris Ziouzios, Researcher and Advisor for ICT and Environment, Regional Development Fund of Western Macedonia, Greece

• Rinora Gojani, Programmes and Operations Manager, Balkan Green Foundation

Organisers

• Secretariat of the EU Initiative for coal regions in transition
• Secretariat of the Initiative for coal regions in transition in the Western Balkans and Ukraine
• Powering Past Coal Alliance
• CINTRAN consortium

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