The Katowice Committee of Experts on the Impacts of the Implementation of Response Measures finds that economic diversification and transformation and the just transition of the workforce and the creation of decent work and quality jobs are two of the main strategies to mitigate the potential socioeconomic impacts of response measures, while enhancing access to the opportunities that emerge from the low carbon transition. These strategies become even more pertinent as Parties work to meet the Paris Agreement temperature goal of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.

This publication provides a compilation of country-driven strategies and best practices on economic diversification and transformation and just transition of the workforce and creation of decent work and quality jobs. It informs on not only the challenges but also opportunities arising from the implementation of low greenhouse gas emission policies towards the achievement of sustainable development and net zero economies.