By continuing you agree to the use of cookies. Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. or its licensors or contributors. The New York metropolitan region has ambitious goals for clean energy. The idea emerged from negotiations between unions, community members, and environmental organisations around the closure of a nuclear power plant. Read the full report on TNI.org: https://www.tni.org/en/justtransition, Local energy ownership in Europe: An exploratory study, Africa Renewable Energy Initiative (AREI), citizen/workers owned cooperative/initiative, Socio-ecological transformation (agriculture tourism education). Just Transition How environmental justice organisations and trade unions are coming together for social and environmental transformation. Crown Copyright © 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. What are the utility companies that produce and deliver power doing to advance this transition?

Movements against free trade agreements and neoliberalism; the alter-globalisation movement; energy sovereignty and democracy struggles; environmental justice movements; labour movements; decolonisation and independence struggles; feminist and women’s movements; movements against racism; and fights for agrarian reform, peasant rights and food sovereignty, among others, have helped to lay the groundwork for discussions today.

Energy policy imperatives are reframed within both climate and environmental concerns. Different movements have differing priorities, commitments, and ways of working, and their visions of just transition may differ in some important ways. The concept of just transition, however, has not escaped the notice of powerful economic and political actors. Suite 1-NNewark, NJ 07105, 2 Landmark Square This event is presented in partnership with Climate Group as part of Climate Week NYC.

New Jersey and Connecticut are both aiming for 100% clean energy by 2050 and 2040, respectively. Site Credits. Vice President of Government, Regional & Community Affairs, Con Ed, Inc. Senior Vice President of Corporate Citizenship, PSEG, Take a look at summaries and photo galleries from past events.

Join us on Friday, September 25 from 11am — 12pm EST for a wide-ranging discussion with leaders from the region’s utility companies, community-based organizations and leading thinkers in this space. The concept can be considered an ecological application of economic conversion, which was developed in the 1980s when anti-war activists sought to build a coalition with military workers and give them a stake in the peace ec…

The movements which are today beginning to consolidate proposals under the name ‘just transition’ have a rich history.

Living in close proximity to highways and transportation depots, refineries and power plants, these communities have paid for exposure to environmental hazards with their health and well-being. These are often informed by a narrow vision of ‘net-zero’ (achieved through carbon trading) or marginally reduced emissions, with little regard for broader environmental, social, and economic problems, or for human rights. Registration is no longer available for this event.

16th FloorNew York, NY 10004, 179 Nassau Street Sign up for our newsletter to hear about the latest reports and events. This is in sharp contrast to understandings of just transition driven by peoples’ movements, which see environmental harms as just one critical manifestation of a broader crisis. All rights reserved. Beginning in the second decade of the 21st century, and particularly in the wake of the Paris Agreement in 2015, a growing number of projects have emerged to consciously build alliances between labour movements and other social and environmental justice movements and organisations. It was originally coined as a term that was designed to link the promotion of clean technology with the assurance of green jobs. The pathway to decarbonization in our region will neither be easy nor straightforward, but it has to be successful and it must be fair. For too long, BIPOC communities have disproportionately borne the environmental and health burdens of our energy system while being underserved by emerging clean energy solutions. These alliances are using joint actions to develop a broad and deep vision of just transition. The New York metropolitan region has ambitious goals for clean energy. Just transition must include but also move beyond the jobs argument. But as we move towards a clean energy future, the opportunity for a just transition is here, if we seize the moment. However, it is increasingly clear that a critical mass of organisations or movements see the vital importance of working through these tensions in order to form stronger and more radical alliances for systemic transformation.

Just Transition is a framework developed by the trade union movement to encompass a range of social interventions needed to secure workers' rights and livelihoods when economies are shifting to sustainable production, primarily combating climate change and protecting biodiversity. ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. Just transition: Integrating climate, energy and environmental justice. We use cookies to help provide and enhance our service and tailor content and ads. But as we move towards a clean energy future, the opportunity for a just transition is here, if we seize the moment. This event was made possible through generous support from Con Edison Foundation. A robust and radical vision of just transition sees environmental destruction, capitalist extraction, imperialist violence, inequality, exploitation, and marginalisation along the axes of race, class, and gender (among others) as simultaneous effects of one global system which must be transformed. Just transition brings together energy with climate and environmental justice. Just transition offers a new space for developing an interdisciplinary transition sensitive approach to exploring and promoting (1) distributional, (2) procedural and (3) restorative justice, termed here as a new triumvirate of tenets. This diversity of backgrounds, political traditions, and strategic goals means that the dialogue that is creating a radical concept of just transition is not free from tensions or contradictions. One Whitehall St Developing, deepening, and applying this analysis in diverse, complex, and local situations is itself a long process of building mutual understanding and solidarity. All content 2020. Some governments and transnational corporations (TNCs) are now advancing visions that pay lip service to the concept of ‘just transition’, while allowing them to continue to profit from initiatives that social movements around the world have branded as ‘false solutions’. Receive our monthly newsletter, insider updates and exclusive invitations to RPA events. Suite 108Stamford, CT 06901. It gained popularity as a powerful framework, which could express workers’ demands in relation to environmental conflicts, and unite different forms of resistance against the political economic model that has been trashing the planet, concentrating wealth, and increasingly exploiting workers around the world, with impacts falling disproportionately on marginalised communities. Restorative justice is introduced as too often overlooked as a critical framework. Learn more about our annual spring conference. COVID-19 has tragically demonstrated the deadly legacy of environmental injustice. A variety of different projects and collaborations in recent years have been working to unite these two powerful and critical movements for transformation in different contexts around the world.

From cap and trade systems, to carbon capture and geoengineering, to the promotion of massive, monocultural agrofuel plantations, a number of deeply problematic ‘solutions’ to the climate crisis are on the table.