“Policymakers, civil society groups, and academic researchers shared experiences putting workers and their communities at the center of just transition roadmaps for achieving cleaner economies in equitable, inclusive ways.
Nithi Nesadurai, CANSEA, highlighted the IKI JET project in Indonesia’s coal mining region, which involves a wide range of stakeholders and experts, including the Indonesian and German national governments, international labor organizations, Climate Action Network-International, IISD, the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Energy and Environment, and local communities. One key to the project’s success, he said, is building trust between local communities and experts. Ultimately, he emphasized, research must be translated and simplified so that it is communicable to people on the ground in those communities.”
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