1. How to realise decent jobs for workers in clean energy transitions?

Strengthening processes to ensure that workers and employers fully participate in planning of clean energy transitions is a key component in supporting workers and communities in transitions and ensuring that the workforce is adequately trained to respond to future skills demand. National-level just transition frameworks as well as local context-specific initiatives and wider labour market policies are all important.

2. How can social inclusion be integrated into workforce development policies?

Clean energy transitions can benefit diverse populations by creating economic opportunities, leading to enhanced equality and improved quality of life. The benefits are maximised when social inclusion considerations, including increasing labour market access for traditionally under-represented and marginalised groups, are a central part of policy design and implementation.

3. How to deliver universal access to affordable energy as part of clean energy transitions? 

Many people still lack access to energy and the benefits that come with it. An even greater number do not have access to clean cooking technologies, disproportionately affecting women and children’s health. Improving affordable energy access should be a core imperative in all clean energy transitions.

4. How can policies ensure low-income and marginalised communities are able to afford clean energy technologies? 

Policies that are specifically designed to increase broader participation in the clean energy economy, whether through targeting low-income households or focusing on technologies that are more widely used and accessible, will lead to more acceptance and uptake from all parts of society.

5. How to ensure clean energy policies maximise socio-economic benefits?

Clean energy policies can create broader socio-economic benefits beyond the energy sector, including better health or new sources of income for households. When policies are designed with this in mind, they can also contribute to addressing existing inequalities.

6. How can policy design determine the fair distribution of benefits and costs?

Identifying and monitoring the impact of policies on different groups is essential to adjusting policy design and creating complementary policies that ensure benefits are fairly distributed.

7. How to put meaningful participation of all stakeholders at the heart of clean energy transitions?

The active participation of all stakeholders in clean energy policy planning is key to the design of transitions, to their acceptability, and to their effective implementation.