Develop a case study in each of the five United Nations regions on just transition of the workforce and the creation of decent work and quality jobs and on economic diversification and transformation in order to understand the opportunities and challenges faced in planning and implementation, and share the findings among Parties and experts
Submission deadline: 27 August 2026
At its fourteenth meeting, the KCI agreed to launch a call for expressions of interest to identify potential collaborating organizations and relevant countries or regions for the development of the first three case studies on just transition of the workforce and the creation of decent work and quality jobs and on economic diversification and transformation in order to understand the opportunities and challenges faced in planning and implementation. The KCI would like to receive input from stakeholders for this purpose.
Interested Parties, observers, and other non-Party stakeholders can submit their inputs by filling the necessary information here by 27 August 2026. Stakeholders are requested to make one submission for each of the proposed case studies.
Areas for proposed case studies
| Area |
Possible focus |
| Policy planning to implementation pathways |
How countries move from just transition strategies, road maps, guidelines or plans to implementation, and identifying enabling factors and challenges, and how these can be addressed in practice. |
| Managing workforce transitions |
How countries support workers and communities affected by climate policies, including adapting skills systems, employment programmes, social protection and monitoring of outcomes. |
| Design and implementation of economic diversification strategies |
How economies design and implement diversification strategies in response to transition pressures, including sequencing, managing fiscal & trade pressures, investment and enabling conditions. The study would identify practical diversification pathways, barriers to successful implementation |
| Identification of potential new sectors for diversification |
How countries identify, develop and scale new sectors that can support job creation, resilience and structural transformation. |
| Impacts of global macroeconomic structures on diversification |
How global climate policies, changing demand, supply chain changes affect diversification prospects and economic structures. |
| Use of impact assessment tools |
How countries apply impact assessment tools to inform decision-making on just transition and economic diversification, and how the outcomes are used to explore policy scenarios, assess impacts, and inform trade-offs between different transition pathways. |
| Institutional arrangements surrounding impact assessment |
How institutional mandates, coordination arrangements, data systems and capacities support assessment of climate policy impacts, and the challenges experienced in impact assessment processes. |
Information to be filled for the submissions
- Name of proposing Party or organization
- Type of proposing entity
- Name of the contact person from the proposing Party or organization
- Email address of the contact person of the proposing Party or organization
- Title of the proposed case study
- Selected area of the case study
- United Nations region to be covered by the case study
- Country or countries to be covered by the case study
- Brief description of the proposed study (not more than 500 words)
- Expected duration for completion of the case study (in months)
- Can the study be developed without financial support from the UNFCCC?
- If no, please provide the estimated range of required financial support in USD (Please note that the UNFCCC is not a donor organization and has limited funding)
- Contribution of the submitting organization
- Please provide the status of any preliminary work undertaken that could serve as a basis for the study, including a link to any available reports, if available.
Should you have any questions, please direct them to KCI@unfccc.int
Access the official call for expression of interest here