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

该项目提出了“公正转型”（JT）的问题，这直接关系到CEL路径对贫困、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。报告强调，有必要以一种将受影响部门的工人和社区的伤害降至最低的方式确保去碳化。该项目从简单但重要的观察开始：“公正的过渡”，尽管无处不在的气候辩论，实际上在不同的国家和制度背景下被理解得非常不同，这与CEL对地理多样性的关注是一致的。借鉴比较政治经济学的传统，该项目将探索如何在三个不同的国家经济中动员JT话语-英国，波兰和南非-并将了解不同的资本主义模式如何产生不同的劳动力和气候运动激励机制。通过将深入的学术论证与吸引相关利益相关者的可信策略相结合，该项目将首次尝试绘制通往JT的多种途径，为该途径的核心主题关注点做出关键贡献。

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.