Policy
A 2018 presentation by Bela Galgoczi, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels, to the ACW All-Team Meeting, November 11, 2018, at York University, Toronto. The presentation focuses on how the concept of 'just transition' has developed into a mainstream demand for European labour unions.
[Originally posted at https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/39297]
A 2021 paper which draws on a taxonomy of sustainability litigation to describe three functions of counter corporate litigation: remedy, the search for justice through legal action; regulation, the enforcement of legal standards through the courts; and repression, the proscription of predatory business models.
[Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/19/10742]
A 2021 article which provides two frameworks – at a project scale, and at an organisational scale – for assessing alignment with a 'just transition'. It uses the example of energy to illustrate both the scale of the challenge being faced, and how such frameworks could be applied in practice.
[Originally posted at https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/pq/article/view/7131]
A 2022 report which maps out the key stakeholder groups, focusing on domestic meat markets in high-consuming developed countries, and identifies guiding principles for a 'just transition' away from large-scale meat production and consumption.
[Originally posted at https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/just-transition-meat-sector.pdf]
A 2021 policy brief which looks at actions the energy sector and finance are starting take to ensure there is a 'just transition' for affected workers and communities, and how those actions can be scaled up.
[Originally posted at https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/financing-the-just-transition-beyond-coal/]
A 2021 first iteration of a 'just transition' finance roadmap for South Africa, is an initial attempt to understand the nature of the challenge of just transition finance in South Africa, what a system level change to the financial eco system could look like and an action agenda for the next four years to begin moving towards such a vision.
[Originally posted at https://www.tips.org.za/research-archive/sustainable-growth/green-economy-2/item/4347-a-just-transition-finance-roadmap-for-south-africa-a-first-iteration]
A 2022 report which finds that EU states' performances on 'just transition' are distinct across four broad regions; Scandinavia, eastern Europe, western Europe, and the Mediterranean. It discusses the nuances of fossil fuel embeddedness in the EU. This is followed by reflection on the importance of embedding fairness in the deployment of new renewable jobs. Finally, it considers the implications for a better-targeted financial mechanism for just transition alongside a fossil fuel divestment strategy.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800922003603]
A 2022 Manifesto for Change which was developed as the final output from the ALIGN project1 and was developed by bringing together stakeholders from across national and local government, business and industry, trade unions, finance, community organisations and the third sector to hear their ambitions for a just energy transition by 2045. It was done by way of a half-day online workshop held in February 2022 in conjunction with the Just Transition Engagement Team at Scottish Government.
[Originally posted at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/81318/]
A 2022 exploratory research paper which sets out to unpack the misalignment between provincial climate policies and legislated commitments to reconciliation, the meaning of a 'just transition' to a low-carbon future, and how Indigenous clean energy projects and proponents are, and ought to be recognized as, leaders in this transition.
[Originally posted at https://summit.sfu.ca/item/35325]
A 2021 report, the result of a unique project between IPPR and London Citizens, which sets out the results of an extensive listening campaign, run by London Citizens, on the priorities for the next mayor of London. It charts how action on the climate crisis could help the capital to ‘build back better’ but only if economic and social justice are allied to climate action.
[Originally posted at https://citizensuk.contentfiles.net/media/documents/london-a-just-transition-city-february-21.pdf]
A 2020 paper which reviews the link of the 'just transition' to UNFCCC processes and labour unions before critically considering the current academic treatment of the agenda and in particular, the under emphasis of Nationally Determined Contributions. It then presents a series of research recommendations centred on a concern for how best to use this political background to leverage tangible impact.
[Originally posted at https://pure.au.dk/portal/files/225604713/Politicising_the_Just_Transition.pdf]
A 2018 report which distinguishes between reactive 'just transition' policies, which are intended to minimize the harm to workers of decarbonization, and proactive just transition policies, which are intended to maximize the benefits. If the broad goal of a just transition is to ensure an equitable, productive outcome for all workers in the zero-carbon economy, a mix of reactive and proactive elements is necessary
[Originally posted at https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/39435]
A 2022 paper which explores how the ownership and governance of land in Scotland needs to evolve if the Scottish Government is to deliver on its stated policy objectives.
[Originally posted at https://www.communitylandscotland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Report-2022-Community-Wealth-Building-and-a-Just-Transition-to-Net-Zero.pdf]
A 2021 book which introduces what the authors consider to be the main aspects to be researched in the fields of food security, justice, and climate change before the authors link together the chapters and papers of this volume that directly and explicitly deal with ethics, food security, and climate change. The first section introduces what is considered to be the main challenges in the nexus between climate change, justice, and food security, and the second and third sections introduce the more general themes of the chapters of this book.
[Originally posted at https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/book/10.3920/978-90-8686-915-2]
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