Just transition in the UK

Description

Researchers in the Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change have embarked on a research programme that considers how climate crisis and mitigation, decarbonisation, and net zero will impact the world of work.

We study the transformation process towards a new social-ecological organisation of the economy with an interest in how it will affect workers, and how workers can shape this transformation. That this transformation is fair and just for workers and communities is not only a political demand, but a principle guiding this transformation.

We are a group of researchers with a background in employment relations, sociology of work, economics, and engineering, interested in shaping this Just Transition in the UK. We collaborate with the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission, trade unions, think tanks, and businesses.

Publications and outputs

Reports

• Community members, climate change, the green economy and just transition, October 2022
• UNISON members, climate change, the green economy and just transition, October 2022
• Decarbonising the Foundation Industries and the implications for workers and skills in the UK: The case of steel, glass and cement industries, September 2022
• Worker perceptions of climate change & the green transition in Yorkshire and the Humber: Building the evidence base for the just transition in the region, Full report, December 2021
• Worker perceptions of climate change & the green transition in Yorkshire and the Humber, Key messages, December 2021

Policy

• Evidence submitted to the Public Accounts Committee, October 2022

Related projects

• Just Transition: action, concepts, debates and strategies - an international comparison across 11 countries
• The Future of Work in Just Transitions
• The worker voice in Just Transitions to a low-carbon economy: building evidenced based policy making in Yorkshire and the Humber

Contact: Professor Vera Trappmann