Santa Marta Pre-Conference | Learning Lessons from Existing Transition Plans
Part of the Academic Pre-Conference, to the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, this session brings together lessons from some of the most important transition planning efforts to date, providing practical insights to strengthen transition roadmaps.
Countries are under growing pressure to move away from fossil fuels, but many still lack practical guidance on how to design transition plans that are credible, inclusive, and implementable. While a number of national and sectoral transition processes are already underway, experience remains fragmented across regions and institutions. Key questions persist around how to structure decision-making, mobilize finance, manage the phase-out of fossil fuel infrastructure, and ensure that transition planning reflects national circumstances while remaining just and effective.
The first session organized as part of the Transition Plans for a 1.5°C-Aligned and Just, Orderly and Equitable Transition Away from Fossil Fuels at the National and International Level workstream, this session will draw on examples from Germany’s coal transition, Just Energy Transition Partnerships in South Africa and Indonesia, Brazil’s national roadmap process, and emerging opportunities for South-South cooperation. It will identify the most transferable lessons for roadmap development, with a particular focus on the needs of Global South countries and provide practical insights on institutional design, financing, plant and mine closure, land restoration, and exchange models that can strengthen future transition roadmaps.
Agenda
Welcome and Housekeeping
Interventions on Lessons Learned from Existing Transition Plans
Pao-Yu Oei, Professor, Sustainable Energy Transition, Europa-Universität Flensburg
Jesse Burton, Senior Associate, E3G
Giovanni Maurice Pradipta, Policy Advisor, Germanwatch
Nicholas Lippolis, Founder and Executive Director, Centre for Energy Finance and Development
Felipe Corral, Director General - Colombia, Midsummer
Break
Fishbowl Discussion on Transferable Lessons
Next Steps
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