Overcoming Five Key Challenges to Make the Energy Transition a Just Labor Transition
This article examines the Just Labor Transition from a mainstream economic perspective, emphasizing worker and community support policies, and contributes a complementary view to the broader Just Energy Transitions literature.
Abstract
Shifting rapidly to a low-emissions global economy could severely disrupt workers’ livelihoods and their communities, exacerbating inequalities and perpetuating injustice. In a Just Labor Transition, strategic policies prepare workers for new jobs, enable inclusive decision-making with meaningful participation of workers and their representatives (including labor unions and other collective organizations), and secure social license for change.
