Blended finance models can also help by attracting private infrastructure for building infrastructure and funding worker reskilling As the world transitions away from fossil fuels to more sustainable forms, there arises the need for equitable and just transition for people working in fossil fuel energy sectors. Ensuring that all workers, especially economically vulnerable ones, are not left behind is one of the biggest challenges that developing nations like India will face.

The energy shift is redrawing India’s economic map, but for coal belt workers in states like Jharkhand, the just transition is already collapsing under policy inaction. Even after three decades, the village of Manki in Jharkhand’s Chatra district still bears the marks of abandonment with its old houses and rusted electric poles. It was home to workers from a now-abandoned coal mine nearby. Today, the mine is buried under wild shrubs and red-flowering trees, with little eviden

As the issue of unemployment looms large this election season while the country aspires to ensure a just transition, CarbonCopy looks into the Centre’s Suryamitra scheme—launched in 2015—to skill India’s youth to work in the solar industry. A closer look shows that while the national initiative has made progress, it is uneven A solar skill training session is underway in Mumbai. “This is the right time to be here. The solar industry is going to be big. Bohot saare logo ki ava

Although pressure on the NTPC had been rising to shut down the plant that had powered the Capital for years, it does not appear to have undertaken any serious planning to deal with its employees, especially contract workers On October 15, 2018, the state-owned thermal power plant at Badarpur, barely a kilometre from the Delhi-Haryana border, was shut down. Once buzzing with activity, today the BTPS (Badarpur Thermal Power Station) campus, spread over more than 500 hectares, w