The Just Transition Challenge: Avoiding Carbon Leakage and Jobs Off-Shoring in Decarbonising International Supply Chains
A 2018 report which demonstrates that displacement of currently EU-based production activity could potentially lead to reductions in domestic jobs and GDP, combined with a net increase in global CO2 emissions.
[Originally posted at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/66207/]
From Paris to Katowice: The EU Needs to Step Up its Game on Climate Change and Set its Own Just Transition Framework
A 2018 policy brief which examines implications of the EU’s targets for reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for labour markets.
[Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3211822]
Just Transition at the Intersection of Labour and Climate Justice Movements: Lessons from the Portuguese Climate Jobs Campaign
A 2019 article which, drawing upon an extensive case study of the Portuguese climate jobs campaign, goes beyond showing how these orientations shape the positions taken by union and climate activists. The article also analyses how the conflicts and cooperation between these key actors can shed light on the possibilities and/or limitations of just transition as a framework for the collective action needed to achieve rapid, deep decarbonisation of economies in the Global North context.
[Originally posted at https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/3631]
The Just Transition Challenge: Avoiding Carbon Leakage and Jobs Off-Shoring in Decarbonising International Supply Chains
A 2018 paper which demonstrates that displacement of currently EU-based production activity could potentially lead to reductions in domestic jobs and GDP, combined with a net increase in global CO2 emissions.
[Originally posted at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/66207/]
Designing and Implementing Policy for a Just Transition
A 2020 working paper which explores some aspects of the changes needed to achieve a ‘just transition’ for all in the Republic of Ireland.
[Originally posted at https://www.climatecouncil.ie/media/climatechangeadvisorycouncil/contentassets/publications/Working%20Paper%20No.%207.pdf]
Phasing Out Coal – A Just Transition Approach
A 2019 working paper which examines what a ‘just transition’ to a greener but employment-rich and egalitarian economy might look like. It examines the employment structure the European economy with a focus on the coal sector in the light of European Union commitments to phase out coal and argues that policymakers should devise a specific plan for the sector.
[Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3402876]
The Relationship Between a ‘Polluter Pays’ Approach to Carbon Capture, Regional Policy and ‘Just Transition’ Employment Agendas
A 2022 study which identifies a risk of policy commitment to ‘polluter pays’ having sustained negative outcomes for capture firms, along with offshoring/leakage of jobs and GDP, and associated emissions, as demand shifts to lower cost overseas production.
[Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2022.2110031]
Are ‘Green’ Jobs Good Jobs? Lessons from the UK and EU to Inform Labour Market Transitions
A 2021 policy brief which finds that around 20% of jobs in the UK and 14 European economies can be considered directly and indirectly green. It also finds some evidence that greener jobs tend to be ‘better’ jobs.
[Originally posted at https://www.cccep.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Are-Green-Jobs-Good-Jobs_Policy-brief.pdf]
Re-Energising Manufacturing: Industrial Policy for Renewables Manufacturing in Scotland
A 2019 report which looks specifically at the manufacturing sector and what policy lessons can be learned from the last decade or more: is there more that could be done to bring greater numbers of the jobs in the Scottish renewables manufacturing supply chain to Scotland?
And what are the implications of this for Scottish energy and industrial policy more broadly?
[Originally posted at http://www.davidpowell.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/NEF_Re-energising-manufacturing_Nov.pdf]
The Effect of Energy Transition on the Labor Market. A Preliminary Evaluation of Poland’s Wind-Energy Industry
A 2022 paper which concentrates on a preliminary evaluation of Poland’s future job market.
[Originally posted at https://journals.pan.pl/Content/122876/PDF/Janikowska-i-Jebreel-I-kor.pdf]
Economic and Employment Effects of China’s Power Transition Based on Input‒Output and Scenario Simulation
A 2022 study adopts input‒output model to analyze the impact on economy and employment based on accelerated and slow power transition scenarios in China.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674927822000909]
Reframing the Value Case for CCUS: Evidence on the Economic Value Case for CCUS in Scotland and the UK (Technical Report)
A 2019 research which argues that CCS could play a key role in sustaining over 26,000 direct jobs in the on-shore support industry that have traditionally associated with oil and gas, and around another 18,000 supply jobs associated with this industry and the emerging offshore renewables sectors.
[Originally posted at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/67391/]
Literature Review: The Green Economy, Clean Energy Policy and Employment
A 2016 literature review which finds that the green economy has positive effects on employment in both developing and developed countries, while the results can alter according to the type of measurement adopted.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610216302302]
European Job Guarantee: Targeting the Triple Crises Facing Post-COVID Europe
A 2020 report which suggests creation of a European Job Guarantee (EU JG) as a policy tool for post-pandemic recovery.
[Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3715344]
Meeting Well-Below 2°C Target Would Increase Energy Sector Jobs Globally
A 2021 study which finds that, by 2050, jobs in the energy sector would grow from today’s 18 million to 21 million in the reference scenario and even more, to 26 million, under the proposed well-below 2°C scenario.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259033222100347X]
Measuring the Socio‑Economic Footprint of the Energy Transition
A 2019 socioeconomic footprint analysis, which is based on the IRENA REmap energy transition roadmap 2018, explores a higher deployment of low-carbon technologies, mostly renewable energy and energy efficiency.
[Originally posted at https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41825-019-00018-6.pdf?pdf=button]