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A Just Transition for Adaption

Books and studies
2026
Climate Change

The report advances a Just Transition for Adaptation (JTfA) as a necessary course-correction for Africa: expanding conventional just-transition framings beyond emissions reduction and energy transitions to include adaptation justice. Adaptation is reframed as a  a systemic and justice-centered transformation rather than a collection of technical interventions. The report uses four interlinked dimensions of justice as anchors and operational lenses for its arguments: recognitional, procedural, distributive, and restorative. 

Power Shift Africa

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Amy Giliam Thorp, Neil Overy, Lina Adil, Frederick Otieno