Videos

The research involved 20 researchers from 12 research institutions and was led by the Leeds University Business School.
Our conference aims to:
- inform policymakers and stakeholders about existing labour-led Just Transition initiatives
- Map out factors and limitations of success for Just Transitions across the globe
- Showcase the contested variety of understandings of Just Transitions among unions world-wide

Session 1: Just Transitions for workers

In the first session, we showcase and discuss findings from country cases in which unions exhibit some degree of
agency and effective channels of influence based on associational and/or institutionalised power, to initiate and
fill with life a conversation around workers' needs in the process of post-carbon change, and promote these in the
political realm and/or in the field of industrial relations.

Authors: Prof Vera Trappmann and prof Dr Dennis Eversgberg

Authors: Dr Felix Schulz, Prof Vera Trappmann and Prof Dennis Eversberg

Authors: Dr Jo Cutter, Prof Vera Trappmann and Dr Ursula Balderson

Authors: Hunter Moskowitz and Dr Mijin Cha

Authors: Dr Jonathan Michaud, Melanie Laroche and Prof Eric Pineault

In this second session, we present findings from countries where Just Transition is either not a commonly used concept at all or where policies to transition whole industrial sectors at a national level are pursued by government in a top-down fashion with regard primarily to the strength and development of the national economy, rather than to the concerns of the workers and communities affected. See the link for the full programme.

Author: Dr Jiachen Shi

Author: Dr Olga Ustyuzhantseva

A long path of transition to a clean economy in a post-socialist state

Author: Aleksander Szpor

Authors: Dr Alex Beresford and Dr Ruth Bookbinder

This third session collects evidence from country cases where unions derive agency, influence and political energy from their embeddedness in communities, and strive - more or less effectively - to shape impending or ongoing socio-economic change to the benefit of these communities and the protection of their living environments and quality of life. See the link for the full programme.

Authors: Dr Temitayo Odeyemi, Boluwatifie Ajibola, Damilola Olorunshola and Dr Kingsley Ogunne

Authors: Marco Túlio Vieira and Dr Flávia Ribeiro

Author: Dr Jo Cutter

Author: Dr Dr Dario Azzellini