Global Perspectives on Climate; Policy and Just Transition

Join our hybrid conference presenting research findings from unions' Just Transition policies and initiatives across 14 countries worldwide from a multi-year research project.

Register your place on the Hans Böckler Foundation’s website

Led by Leeds University Business School’s Professor Vera Trappmann, this hybrid conference will present research into unions' Just Transition policies and initiatives in 14 countries worldwide from a multi-year research project funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation, and offers a space for discussing policy learnings from international perspectives.

Just Transition is contested. Efforts at decarbonisation have widely varying effects on workers across countries, sectors and locations, from offering new opportunities and green jobs to the social risks of unbalanced phaseouts in high-emitting sectors. Workers and trade unions respond to the challenges of transition in a range of ways, including focusing on protecting core industry jobs in the Global North to resisting the destruction of communities and habitats by extractive projects in the Global South. These different experiences have brought about equally different understandings of Just Transition, visions for a post-carbon future, and strategies and instruments for achieving them. 

The research you will hear presented is the result of a combined project between 20 researchers from 12 research institutions, led by Leeds University Business School.

Global Perspectives on Climate; Policy and Just Transition welcomes delegates from from European trade unions and union confederations, affected trade unions, policymakers, think-tank representatives and academics with related research.

This conference is taking place in person and online, and will be hosted at the Representation of the State of Lower Saxony, Rue Montoyer 61, Brussels. Please note that you must select your option for attendance on the ticketing page.

Conference programme to be revealed in due course.

If you have any questions about this conference, please contact Grace Carter at Leeds University Business School.