Welcome to this page where the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) is providing a curated collection of resources on just transition and climate change. Here, you can find a wide range of publications, events, training activities, podcasts, and videos to deepen your knowledge and understanding of the topic. These resources have been carefully selected and curated to provide valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities presented by the transition towards a low-carbon and sustainable economy, while ensuring social justice and decent work for all. We invite you to explore these resources and use them to inform your trade union, research and training activities.
Table of contents
1. Publications
- Galgóczi B. (2023) On the way to electromobility - a green(er) but more unequal future?
- Nietsche-Whitfield P. (2023) Beyond economic growth
- Verdolini E. (2023) Interlinkages between the just ecological transition and the digital transformation
- Pardi T. (2023) Heavier, faster and less affordable cars
- Tomassetti P. (2023) Between stakeholders and shareholders: Pension funds and labour solidarity in the age of sustainability, in European Labour Law Journal, Vol. 14(1) 73–91
- Mandelli M. (2022) Mapping eco-social policy mixes for a just transition in Europe
- Kiss-Dobronyi B. and Fazekas D. (2022) Modelling the decarbonisation of energy intensive industries in the EU
- Schade W., Haug I., Berthold D. (2022). The future of the automotive sector
- Pucheta M., Sànchez A. (2022). Just transition in the Global South
- Natali D., Raitano M., Valenti G. (2022) Pensions and the green transition: policy and political issues at stake
- Valenduc C. (2022) The carbon pricing proposals of the 'Fit for 55' package
- Sabato S. and Theodoropoulou S. (2022) The socio-ecologicaldimension of the EU’s recovery: further traction for the European Green Deal? in Vanhercke B., Sabato S. and Spasova S. (eds.) (2022) Social policy in the European Union:state of play 2022, Policymaking in a permacrisis, ETUI and OSE
- Schaapman M. (2022) Towards an OSH agenda on climate change and the green transition in Bérastegui P. and Staunton B. (2022) Psychosocial risks: a mounting crisis, HesaMag 26, Winter 2022.
- Tomassetti P. (2022) Energy Transition: A Labour Law Retrospective, in Industrial Law Journal
- From just transition to a new concept of the welfare state, Transfer - volume 28 Issue 3, August 2022
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See also here the digital resource collection of Labourline on the topic of just transition
2. Training activities
- Green transition calls for green jobs
- Green transition in wood and forestry and the potential for an innovative trade union CBA agenda
- Social protection, a key enabler during the green transition
- Energy poverty in the spotlight
- Intergenerational equity and climate change
- The health cost of extreme weather
- Just Transition and strategies of anticipation of change in companies
- EWCs and the environmental transition
3. Events
Upcoming: 5 October 2023: Transformative pathways towards a new European eco-social model
Past:
- 13 June 2023: Social protection as facilitator of the green transition – do we need a European Eco-Social Model 2.0?
- 15-17 May 2023: Beyond growth 2023 conference
- 11 May 2023: Were national response measures to the energy crisis social and climate-friendly?
- 27 April 2023: Why we need a reform of the EU electricity market and how we can make it more socially just
- 4 April 2023, On the way to electromobility – a green(er) but more unequal future?
- 8-9 December 2022: A just transition beyond growth?
- 6-7 October 2022: The labour-environment nexus: legal perspectives and beyond
- 2 June 2022: Decarbonizing energy intensive industries: what are the risks and opportunities for jobs?
- 21 April 2022: On the way to net-zero mobility – what does this mean for European automobile jobs?
- 14 March 2022: Addressing transport poverty: the key to a socially balanced green transformation
- 7 March 2022: Challenges and perspectives of a just transition in Europe
4. Podcasts
- Philippe Pochet & Béla Galgóczi: What are eco-social policies?
- Klaus Hasselmann and Susanne Hasselmann-Barthe: on climate change and climatology
- Philippe Pochet: Quatre scénarios pour l'avenir de l'Europe après la crise
5. Videos
6. Newsletter
With this Green New Deal newsletter, the ETUI aims to provide a synthesis of the latest information and thinking on this topic in an accessible format. Our intention is not only to decode the sometimes complex text at European level, but also to highlight the added value of trade union initiatives on just transition.
7. Projects
- The future of the automotive sector
- Decarbonizing energy intensive industries: what are the risks and opportunities for jobs?