Key policy design considerations for affordable and fair transitions

Making the shift to a clean energy system requires major investment by governments, businesses, and households. One chief concern for policy makers is ensuring such investments increase affordability, and access, of energy services and technology for all, not just for select parts of the population or the world. The new 'Global Commission on People-Centred Clean Energy Transitions: Designing for fairness’ explores how the design of clean energy policies can deliver greater affordability, optimal distribution of benefits and costs, and more equity in energy systems.

The Global Commission is co-chaired by Teresa Ribera, Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, and Alexandre Silveira de Oliveira, Brazil’s Minister of Mines and Energy. It comprises energy, climate and labour leaders from governments around the world, along with high-level representatives from international organisations and labour, Indigenous Nations and Peoples, youth and civil society groups. This paper is the first output of the Global Commission and it is being released at the invitation of Minister Silveira to provide input into G20 energy deliberations.