A Comparative Political Economy of Just Transition: Trade Unions, NGOs and Pathways to Climate Justice

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This project takes up the question of 'Just Transition' (JT), which directlyrelates to the CEL Pathway's concern with the 'grand challenges' ofpoverty, social exclusion, climate change and environmental degradation.JT has emerged as a key concept in the labour and climate movements. Itstresses the need to secure de-carbonisation in a way that minimises harmto workers and communities in affected sectors. The project begins from asimple but important observation: that 'just transition', while ubiquitious inclimate debates, is actually understood very differently in different nationaland institutional contexts, in line with CEL's focus on geographical diversity.Drawing on the tradition of comparative political economy, the project willexplore how JT discourse has been mobilised across three differentnational economies - the UK, Poland, and South Africa - and will charthow different models of capitalism generate different incentives for labourand climate movements. By combining in-depth scholarly argument with acredible strategy for engaging relevant stakeholders, the project will deliverthe first attempt to chart diverse pathways towards JT, making a keycontribution to the Pathway's central thematic concerns.