A Globally Just Transition: Perspectives from the Committee for Development Policy

This Policy Note compiles perspectives from the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) and its members on different dimensions of a globally just transition to low-carbon and environmentally sustainable economies. The Note includes the central messages of the debates on just transition during the CDP’s 2023 plenary meeting, on which the Committee reported to ECOSOC, as well as pieces, individually authored and selected by CDP members, on ecologically sustainable industrialization; breaking fossil fuel dependency; the potential and risks of carbon border adjustment mechanisms; the special challenges of middle-income countries in securing a just transition; solutions for climate resilience; the market and political failures that hold back advances in sustainable development; and recent advances in multilateral action.