The Malady of Just Energy Transition: Negotiating Climate Change in a fiercely Contested and Fragmented Global Space.

Proposal:
We are living and surviving in an era of ‘anthropocene’, where human beings have invaded the planet through their actions that is beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. The impending climate crisis has an innate anthropomorphic dimension and delirious connect. The torment of the just transition phenomenon begins with its definitional penumbra. Often, the term is conflated with a set of disparate qualitative traits that are not definitionally entailed.
The fact that there is an attempt for a universal generalization of this phenomenon creates a very strong binary. It reinforces the epistemic hurdles in its conceptual optimization as a singular, universal concept. The predicament of a just transition phenomenon is not merely definitional but rather inheres in the concept itself. To study the phenomenon as a singular event, with an intent to illuminate the functional penumbra brings in its train, several interpretational ineradicable ambiguities.
Firstly, a just transition phenomenon builds upon a variety of covariational evidence; there is no single type of just transition evidence. Secondly, the phenomenon assumes a categorical distinction when studied units are located in different cultures and geographies. It is never entirely clear as the units /parameters of evaluation that are brought into the analysis compromise on the real context of its functional trajectory. Thirdly, this phenomenon apparently performs a dual function; it is a manifestation (of the development culture itself) as well as a concept (comprising different evaluative parameters and non-axiomatic assumptions). Finally, the inference(s) pursued by an evaluative procedure for this phenomenon may be either illustrative or falsifiable. These methodological issues bedevil the understanding of just transition phenomenon. And they shall continue to do so, for they are inherent in the debate between survival and luxury in terms of a production system.
The panel shall therefore, navigate through three dominant conceptions of policy making vis a vis managing and sustaining ‘just energy transition’, viz., rationalist-positivist, discursive-interpretative, and strategic. The contextual labyrinth shall provide meaningful lessons for policy makers and practitioners on-the-ground, attempting to implement context-specific, energy transition approaches, often with fewer resources than they actually need, to support rapid energy transitions.