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. It includes the central messages of the debates on just transition during the CDP’s 2023 plenary meeting, on which the Committee reported to the Economic and Social Council, as well as pieces, individually authored and selected by CDP members, on ecologically sustainable industrialisation, breaking fossil fuel dependency, the potential and risks of carbon border adjustment mechanisms, the special challenges of middle-income countries (MICs) in securing a just transition; solutions for climate resilience, the market failures and political failures that hold back advances in sustainable development; and recent advances in multilateral action.

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