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

这个项目提出了“公正过渡”(JT)的问题，这直接关系到CEL途径对贫困、社会排斥、气候变化和环境退化等“重大挑战”的关注。JT已经成为劳工和气候运动中的一个关键概念。它强调有必要确保脱碳，将对受影响部门的工人和社区的伤害降至最低。该项目从一个简单但重要的观察开始：尽管在气候辩论中无处不在，但在不同的国家和制度背景下，人们实际上对“只是过渡”的理解非常不同，这与CEL对地理多样性的关注是一致的。该项目将借鉴比较政治经济学的传统，探索JT话语是如何在三个不同的国家--英国、波兰和南非--动员起来的，并将绘制不同的资本主义模式如何为劳动力和气候流动带来不同的激励。通过将深入的学术论证与吸引相关利益攸关方的生动战略相结合，该项目将首次尝试绘制通向JT的不同路径，对路径的中心主题问题做出关键贡献。

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.