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Oliver Gordon
@olliegordon.bsky.social
Lead just transitions researcher & writer at The Institute for Human Rights and Business. Freelance environmental journalist & photographer. Solutions Journalism Network alumnus.

https://www.oliver-gordon.com/
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India's SEWA is helping Gujarat's #saltfarmers replace their #diesel pumps with #solar power, facilitated by #greenskills training and a pioneering financing scheme – slashing #emissions, cutting costs and giving the #women control over their own futures.

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July 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
#India is the world’s third largest #salt producer, 80% of which comes from inland salt flats in #Gujarat. The vast majority of the workforce here are informal salt farmers, but for decades they have received a pittance for their back-breaking labour.

#netzero

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July 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
For generations, families like Manguben Dhirubhai Jaga’s have toiled from dawn to dusk in the 45ºC heat and blinding sun of the Gujarati desert to produce the world’s #salt. And thanks to #climatechange, their lives are only getting tougher. But hope is at hand👇

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July 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Really chuffed that my story on Gujarat's desert salt farmers got a shout-out in the latest Qutting Carbon newsletter from @justingerdes.bsky.social‬. It's truly my go-to source to keep up to date on the #energytransition.

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July 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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With support from trade union SEWA, thousands of informal salt farmers in Gujarat, India, are swapping diesel pumps for solar power – cutting emissions and raising incomes. Vivid reporting - and wonderful photos - from my friend @olliegordon.bsky.social: www.just-stories.org/stories/agen... 🔌💡
‘Agents of green transition’: Gujarat’s women salt farmers signal a…
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June 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
In the salt flats of Gujarat, a green revolution is underway. Thousands of informal salt farmers are swapping diesel pumps for solar power – cutting emissions, raising incomes and proving the path to net zero can bring transformation.

@SEWA @ihrb.bsky.social 🙏

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‘Agents of green transition’: Gujarat’s women salt farmers signal a…
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June 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The Tony Blair Institute has now issued a statement (pic) saying the UK govt is "already pursuing" the solutions it highlights – CCS, new nuclear, etc – and that "we support the govt's 2050 net-zero targets"

The wildly inaccurate media coverage will now be corrected, right?
6/6
April 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Many thanks to @climatechangenews.com & @meganrowling.bsky.social for publishing my story on the #JustTransition underway in Collie, #WesternAustralia - a promising example of how #coal town can thrive in global transition to #NetZero🙏

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This Australian coal community is co-designing its own green future
This Australian mining town offers a promising example of how to survive - and even thrive - while maintaining your green future plans
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March 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
With the world’s #coal towns facing the threat of extinction, the community of Collie in Western #Australia offers a promising example of how to survive – and even thrive in – the global transition to #netzero emissions.

Read my piece for @ihrb.bsky.social👇

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Collie’s just transition: a blueprint for ​the world’s eight million…
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March 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM