Climate Breakdown, Trades Union Agency and the Challenge of Brexit: An Eco-Socialist Perspective on a Just Transition on the island of Ireland

目的：该项目是绿色政治经济学的一项研究，旨在进一步了解和寻找促进公正转型所需的深层社会伙伴关系的条件。该项目是在更广泛的比较分析框架内进行的一项批判性理论研究工作，并特别关注资本主义的结构性危机，其与气候崩溃的关系以及爱尔兰岛工会机构实现公正过渡的变革潜力。背景：国际工会运动一直处于公正过渡政策发展的前沿，最近在第24届缔约方会议上，包括英国和爱尔兰共和国在内的37个国家起草并通过了《2018年团结和公正过渡西里西亚宣言》。理论上，这为工会运动创造了一个重要的专用空间，以影响如何为公平的后碳未来塑造新的参与式经济模式。目标：(1)该项目将质疑生态社会主义的分析，即环境/气候危机主要是当前（新自由主义）全球资本主义体系的结果；转化为对人类和自然的过度开发，并概述其全球影响和应对措施，特别是对爱尔兰岛。(2)此外，该研究将仔细审查生态社会主义者，以确定所需要的是对构成经济增长的因素的不同观点，以及我们如何在雄心勃勃的福利国家框架内组织和控制经济的范式转变，该框架旨在民主地改变财富生产条件和公用事业公有制。(3)在此过程中，该研究还将批判性地审视工会运动在国际上的历史作用和当前潜力，在英国以及相对于北爱尔兰和爱尔兰共和国，以促进围绕公正过渡的新政治经济的变革性社会伙伴关系和联盟建设。(4)将全面考虑区域分歧/趋同以及英国脱欧及其对和平建设和岛屿间关系发展的影响所带来的额外复杂性、挑战和机遇。(5)该提案将绘制和分析工会机构朝着建设可持续城市的公正过渡，探索和创造城市增长动态中的干预空间，跨越爱尔兰岛，以及创建理解经济增长和生态边界限制的市政发展模式的必要性，创造最大可持续规模的新经济。结果：(1)研究将产生一系列工作，提供一个关键的理论框架，可以被英国、爱尔兰和国际上的工会运动用作分析参与工具，以发展和管理涉及公正过渡深层社会伙伴关系的纵向和横向关系。(2)该研究将作为一种创新的辩证工具，促进批判性思维、解决问题和合作伙伴关系的途径；创造一个讨论/质疑化石燃料经济增长的空间，以及促进体面、安全和高薪工作的政策，加强社会保护，劳工标准，保护流离失所工人及其社区的福祉。(3)最终，该项目将创建一系列工作，这些工作将大大加强学术研究和公正过渡的知识基础，同时为与大学、其他研究人员和社会合作伙伴的参与和辩论创造新的基础。促进能够促进社会杠杆作用和转型的关系，影响和影响在后碳未来推动公正转型。

The Aim: The project is a research study in the Green Political Economy with the aim to further our understanding and search for the conditions to promote the deep social partnership needed for Just Transition. The project is conducted as a work of critical theory research within a broader placed based comparative analysis framework and has a specific focus on the structural crisis of capitalism, its relationship with climate breakdown and the transformative potential of trade union agency for a Just Transition on the island of Ireland. The Context: The International Trade Union Movement has been at the forefront of policy developments towards Just Transition, culminating in recent drafting and adoption of the Solidarity and Just Transition Silesia Declaration 2018 by 37 countries, including the UK and the Republic of Ireland at COP 24. On paper this creates a significant dedicated space for the trade union movement to influence how new participative economic models are fashioned for an equitable post-carbon future. The Objectives: (1) The project will interrogate the eco-socialist analysis that the environmental/climate crisis is primarily a result of the current (neoliberal) global capitalist system; translating into the over-exploitation of people and nature and outline its implications and responses, globally and specifically for the island of Ireland. (2) Furthermore, the study will scrutinise the eco-socialist ascertain that what is required is a different view on what constitutes economic growth and a paradigm shift on how we organise and control the economy within an ambitious Welfare State framework that seeks to democratically alter the conditions of wealth production and the public ownership of utilities. (3) In so doing, the study will also critically examine the historic role and current potential of the trade union movement internationally, in the UK and comparatively in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to catalyse transformative social partnership and alliance building for new political economies around a Just Transition. (4) Overarching consideration will be given to regional divergence/convergence and the additional layers of complexity, challenge and opportunities posed by Brexit and its impact on peace building and the development of inter-isles relationships. (5) The proposal will map and analyse trade union agency in moving towards a Just Transition to build Sustainable Cities, exploring and creating the intervention space within dynamics of urban growth cities, across the island of Ireland and the need to create a municipal development model that understands the limits of economic growth and ecological boundaries, creating new economies of maximum sustainable size. The Outcomes: (1) The research will produce a body of work that will provide a critical theory framework that can be used and adapted as an analytical engagement tool by the Trade Union Movement in the UK, Ireland and internationally to develop and manage the vertical and horizontal relationships involved in deep social partnership for Just Transition. (2) The study will act as an innovative dialectical instrument to promote pathways for critical thinking, problem solving and partnership working; creating a space for discussion/questioning of fossil fuelled economic growth, and policies to promote decent, secure and well-paid jobs, enhanced social protection, labour standards and to protect the wellbeing of displaced workers and their communities. (3) Ultimately, the project will create a body of work that will significantly strengthen the academic research and intellectual foundation of a Just Transition, while creating a new basis for engagement and debate with universities, other researchers, and amongst the social partners. Promoting relationships that can facilitate social leverage and transformation, influencing and impacting upon the push for Just Transition in a post carbon future.