A Just Distribution: What is missing from the current narratives of a just transition?

by Tracy Ledger ‘What is missing from the current narratives of a just transition? In our initial assessment, there are two key gaps in the current national just transition debate that will undermine significant progress towards a genuinely inclusive and socially just energy system. The first gap is created by the fact that many of the current proposals for transforming our energy system focus on the generation of energy. This generation focus includes the impact of changing generation models on coal mining stakeholders central to most local just transition narratives. They focus on the future generation mix (renewables versus coal), the challenge of increasing the supply of electricity, the