Just Transition (Green and Black) Planning Manual

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A manual produced by Benchmark doo, a consulting company, provides a practical framework for planning a just transition in the Western Balkans, with a specific focus on the labour market, social protection, governance, and financing dimensions of the shift from coal-dependent economic structures toward low-carbon development. Designed for policymakers, local governments, social partners, employment services, development agencies, donors, and practitioners, the document translates international just transition principles into an operational guide adapted to the realities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Albania. It argues that decarbonisation will not be socially or politically sustainable unless the workers, communities, and municipalities most exposed to transition costs are identified early and supported through targeted, adequately financed, and participatory measures. The manual is organised into twenty-six modules covering the full planning cycle: vulnerability diagnosis, social-risk assessment, governance design, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, sequencing of actions, alignment with National Energy and Climate Plans, labour-market analysis, skills anticipation, reskilling and upskilling, active labour-market policies, social protection, institutional-capacity assessment, financial-gap analysis, blended finance, ESG standards, and budget allocation. Its central contribution is to connect energy-transition planning with concrete labour and social policy instruments, emphasising that social protection, retraining, income support, and local economic diversification must precede or accompany coal phase-out and industrial restructuring. The manual also stresses the importance of place-based strategies, since coal-dependent municipalities face concentrated risks through job losses, fiscal decline, emigration, poverty, and weakened local development prospects. By combining diagnostic matrices, scoring tools, planning steps, stakeholder frameworks, case simulations, and financing instruments, the manual offers an integrated methodology for converting broad just transition commitments into implementable policy packages. It presents just transition not only as an environmental or energy-policy challenge, but as a wider development, labour-market, and governance agenda. The core message is that successful transition in the Western Balkans requires early action, spatial targeting, social equity, participatory governance, policy coherence, financial feasibility, and continuous adaptation to local institutional and economic conditions.

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