Indicators Handbook for Just and Inclusive Energy Transitions

The Indicators Handbook is based on the voluntary G20 Principles for Just and Inclusive Transitions, endorsed by G20 leaders in November 2024. The principles, which reflect varying perspectives, contexts and experiences, form a framework for approaching transitions that maximises benefits and mitigates the risk of unintended consequences. Designed as a technical resource, the Indicators Handbook provides guidance for governments and other stakeholders on identifying relevant indicators as a first step towards tracking policy design and implementation in line with the G20 Principles for Just and Inclusive Transitions. The Handbook provides tools for tracking progress, evaluating the effectiveness of existing or planned programmes, and supporting the design of just and inclusive energy policies.

Recognising the diversity of national energy systems and socio-economic contexts, the handbook does not offer a prescriptive framework with a defined set of indicators. Instead, it outlines a selection of indicators and evaluation methodologies, drawn from practical applications in 35 case studies, for each of the G20 principles. Most of these indicators have already been used by stakeholders across the world to address the key dimensions of just transitions. Countries can tailor these proposed indicators and evaluation methods to suit their unique priorities, institutional capacities and national policy landscapes. On the global stage, these indicators can also support countries as they develop their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and other climate and adaptation strategies. 

The Indicators Handbook for Just and Inclusive Energy Transitions was launched at the meeting of the Global Commission on 9 October 2025 in Durban, South Africa as part of the official programme of the G20 Energy Transitions Ministerial Meeting. It is an official South Africa G20 Presidency document, developed by the Global Commission on People-Centred Clean Energy Transitions in collaboration with the South Africa G20 Presidency Secretariat and its local partners.