Just Transitions

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In the field of 'climate change', no terrain goes uncontested. The terminological tug of war between activists and corporations, scientists and governments, has seen radical notions of 'sustainability' emptied of urgency and subordinated to the interests of capital. 'Just Transition' is the latest such battleground, and the conceptual keystone of the post-COP21 climate policy world. But what does it really mean?



Just Transition emerged as a framework developed within the trade union movement to encompass a range of social interventions needed to secure workers' and frontline communities' jobs and livelihoods as economies shift to sustainable production. Just Transitions draws on a range of perspectives from the global North and South to interrogate the overlaps, synergies and tensions between various understandings of the Just Transition approach. As the concept is entering the mainstream, has it lost its radical edge, and if so, can it be recovered?



Written by academics and activists from around the globe, this unique edited collection is the first book entirely devoted to Just Transition.
List of Illustrations

List of Acronyms

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Genealogy and Contemporary Politics of Just Transitions - Dimitris Stevis (Colorado State University, USA), Edouard Morena (University of London Institute in Paris, France) and Dunja Krause (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development)

1. 'No Jobs on a Dead Planet': The International Trade Union Movement and Just Transition - Anabella Rosemberg (Greenpeace)

2. Business in Just Transition: The Never-Ending Story of Corporate Sustainability - Nils Moussu (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)

3. Australian Business: Embracing, Reconceptualising or Ignoring a Just Transition in Australia - Caleb Goods (University of Western Australia, Australia)

4. Tales From the Frontlines: Building a People-Led Just Transition in Jackson, Mississippi - Kali Akuno (Cooperation Jackson, USA)

5. What Transition? Collectively Imagining a Just and Low-Carbon Future for Río Negro, Argentina - Martín Álvarez Mullally (Observatorio Petrolero Sur, Argentina), Fernando Cabrera Christiansen (Observatorio Petrolero Sur, Argentina) and Laura Maffei (Sustainlabor, Argentina)

6. Resource Rich and Access Poor: Securing a Just Transition to Renewables in South Africa - Sandra van Niekerk (Public Services International Research Unit, UK)

7. The Story of Coal in Germany: A Model for Just Transition in Europe? - Alexander Reitzenstein (E3G, Germany), Sabrina Schulz (E3G, Germany) and Felix Heilmann (E3G, Germany)

8. A Top-Down Transition: A Critical Account of Canada’s Government-Led Phase-Out of the Coal Sector - Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Canada) and Ian Hussey (Parkland Institute, Canada)

9. Just Transition Solutions and Challenges in a Neoliberal and Carbon-Intensive Economy - Darryn Snell (RMIT University, Australia)

Notes on Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Human Rights
• Sustainable Development
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Employabilité, métiers et formations
• Calentamiento global
• Movimiento sindical
• 21st century
• Sustainability
• Global warming
• International human rights law
• Climate change
• Labour economics
• Trade union
• International Labour Organization
• Public international law
• Economics
• Development
• Business
• LAW
• International
• Labor
• Labour

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786805331
• Langue: English

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Just Transitions
Just Transitions
Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World
Edited by Edouard Morena, Dunja Krause and Dimitris Stevis
First published 2020 by Pluto Press
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Contents
List of illustrations
List of acronyms
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The genealogy and contemporary politics of just transitions
Dimitris Stevis, Edouard Morena Dunja Krause
1 No jobs on a dead planet : The international trade union movement and just transition
Anabella Rosemberg
2 Business in just transition: The never-ending story of corporate sustainability
Nils Moussu
3 Australian business: Embracing, reconceptualising, or ignoring a just transition in Australia
Caleb Goods
4 Tales from the frontlines: Building a people-led just transition in Jackson, Mississippi
Kali Akuno
5 What transition? Collectively imagining a just and low-carbon future for R o Negro, Argentina
Mart n lvarez Mullally, Fernando Cabrera Christiansen Laura Maffei
6 Resource rich and access poor: Securing a just transition to renewables in South Africa
Sandra van Niekerk
7 The story of coal in Germany: A model for just transition in Europe?
Alexander Reitzenstein, Sabrina Schulz Felix Heilmann
8 A top-down transition: A critical account of Canada s government-led phase-out of the coal sector
Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood Ian Hussey
9 Just transition solutions and challenges in a neoliberal and carbon-intensive economy
Darryn Snell
Notes on contributors
Index
List of illustrations
Figure 5.1
Vaca Muerta Megaproject
Figure 7.1
German coal employment, 1950-2008
Figure 7.2
Emission of greenhouse gases covered by the UNFCCC (Germany)
Table 8.1
Active coal-fired power plants in Canada (2018)
List of acronyms
AfD
Alternative f r Deutschland ( Alternative for Germany , far-right populist party)
AFL
Alberta Federation of Labour
AFL-CIO
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (United States)
AIPP
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
AG
Auditor General (South Africa)
ALP
Australian Labor Party
AMMA
Australian Mines and Metals Association
AMWU
Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
ANC
African National Congress (South Africa)
APWLD
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
AWG-LCA
Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action
BDEW
Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft ( German Association of Energy and Water Industries )
BDI
Bundesverband der deutschen Industrie ( Federation of German Industries )
BEE
Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energie e.V. ( German Renewable Energy Federation )
BINGO
Business NGO
BSR
Business for Social Responsibility
CAN
Climate Action Network
CCOO
Confederaci n Sindical de Comisiones Obreras (Trade Union Confederation of Workers Commissions, Spain)
CDP
Carbon Disclosure Project
CDU
Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
CEP
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
CEO
Chief Executive Officer
CFDT
Conf d ration Fran aise D mocratique du Travail (French Democratic Federation of Labour)
CFMEU
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (Australia)
CGT
Conf d ration G n rale du Travail (General Confederation of Labour, France)
CIEL
Center for International Environmental Law
CJA
Climate Justice Alliance
CLC
Canadian Labour Congress
CO 2
Carbon Dioxide
COGTA
Department of Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs (South Africa)
COP
Conference of the Parties
COSATU
Congress of South African Trade Unions
CPRS
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Australia)
CSC
Conf d ration des Syndicats Chr tiens (Confederation of Christian Trade Unions, Belgium
CSD
Commission on Sustainable Development
CSP
Concentrated Solar Plant
CSU
Christian Social Union (Germany)
DGB
Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund ( German Trade Union Confederation )
DM
Deutschmark (former standard monetary unit of Germany)
DOE
Department of Energy
EFO
Fern ndez Oro Station (Argentina)
ENGO
Environmental NGO
ETU
Electrical Trades Union (Australia)
ETUC
European Trade Union Confederation
EU
European Union
FDP
Freie Demokratische Partei ( Liberal Democratic Party, Germany )
GCCA
Global Call for Climate Action
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
GDR
German Democratic Republic
GHG
Greenhouse Gas
GTLC
Gippsland Trades and Labour Council (Australia)
GW
Gigawatt
ICC
International Chamber of Commerce
ICEM
International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers Unions
ICFTU
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
IG BCE
Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie ( Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union, Germany )
ILO
International Labour Organization
IMATU
Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (South Africa)
INDC
Intended Nationally Determined Contribution
IOE
International Organisation of Employers
IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPP
Independent Power Producers (South Africa)
IRP
Integrated Resource Plan (South Africa)
ISTAS
Instituto Sindical de Trabajo, Ambiente y Salud ( Trade Union Institute of Work, Environment and Health, Spain )
ITUC
International Trade Union Confederation
IWGIA
International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs
JTA
Just Transition Alliance (United States)
JTC
Just Transition Centre
LMBV
Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft ( Lusatian and Central German Mining Management Company )
LVA
Latrobe Valley Authority (Australia)
MCA
Minerals Council of Australia
MW
Megawatt
Mt
Megatonnes
MXGM
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
NDC
Nationally Determined Contribution
NDP
New Democratic Party (Canada)
NERSA
National Energy Regulator of South Africa
NGO
Non-governmental Organisation
NUMSA
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
OCAW
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union (United States)
OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PACJA
Pan African Climate Justice Alliance
PAE(G)
Pan American Energy (Group)
PC
Progressive Conservative (Canada)
PCB
Polychlorinated Biphenyl
PPA
Power Purchase Agreement
PSI
Public Services International
R D
Research and Development
REACH
Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals - Regulation EC No 1907/2006
RED
Regional Electricity Distributor
REFIT scheme
Renewable Energy Through a Feed-in Tariff
REIPPPP
Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme
RINGO
Research NGO
SAMWU
South African Municipal Workers Union
SEC
State Electricity of Victoria (Australia)
SPD
Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands ( Social Democrat Party of Germany )
SSEG
Small-scale Embedded Generation
TUAC
Trade Union Advisory Council (to the OECD)
TUC
Trades Union Congress (United Kingdom)
TUCA
Trade Union Confederation of the Americas
TUED
Trade Unions for Energy Democracy
TUNGO
Trade Union Non-governmental Organisation
UK
United Kingdom
UMW
United Mine Workers (United States)
UN
United Nations
UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme
UNFCCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UnTER
Uni n de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores de la Educaci n de R o Negro ( Union of Education Workers of Rio Negro )
US
United States
USW
United Steelworkers (United States)
VER.DI
Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft ( United Services Trade Union, Germany )
WBCSD
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
WCL
World Confederation of Labour
WEDO
Women s Environment and Development Organization
WTS
Worker Transfer Scheme (Australia)
WWF
World Wide Fund for Nature
YPF
Yacimientos Petrol feros Fiscales ( Fiscal Oilfields - Argentine energy company)
Acknowledgments
This book builds on many years of research on labour environmentalism and stakeholder dynamics in international climate and development debates. It also draws on more recent exchanges and debates within the Just Transition Research Collaborative (JTRC). Launched in early 2018, the JTRC brings together approximately 20 activist scholars from the Global North and South who have a shared interest in the just transition concept and narrative, and, more broadly, the social justice dimensions of the transition toward a low-carbon world. We wish to thank all those involved in the JTRC for their ideas and support. Special thanks go out to Diego Azzi, Jacklyn Cock, Romain Felli, Nicole Helmerich, Josua Mata, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, Tadzio M ller, Sandra van Niekerk, Vivian Price, Rebecca Shelton and Damian White who actively took part in the Collaborative s activities over the past year and worked on the report Mapping Just Transition(s) to a Low Carbon World , which was launched at the Katowice Climate Conference in December 2018. We also wish to thank John Barry and Sin ad Mercier, Thomas Hirsch, Peter Newell and Anabella Rosemberg for their noteworthy contributions to the JTRC s online forum. Their and JTRC members analyses and insights fuelled our own thinking on just transitions and greatly con