A key part of securing a just transition is in the support offered to workers in high-carbon sectors. There are two aspects of this. The first concerns the availability of low carbon employment opportunities and the kind of jobs created …
Policy & Briefings
Hoping for progress in 2025, after disappointment in 2024
2024 was a year with little progress made on key elements of a just transition in Scotland While we are waiting with great interest for the UK Government’s Great British Energy company to start operation from its HQ in Aberdeen, …
Workers’ Perspectives on Energy Transitions by Dr. Ewan Gibbs
The Just Transition Partnership has worked with Dr Ewan Gibbs of the University of Glasgow to publish a new report looking at workers’ perspective on energy transitions in Britain. The changes in our society and economy from the energy transition …
The Scottish Government’s credibility on just transition can be regained through a green industrial strategy
In the Programme for Government announced in September 2023, the Scottish Government committed to develop a Green Industrial Strategy. This should be seen as an opportunity to rectify the crisis of credibility on just transition which follows from years of …
Plan now for a just transition at Mossmorran – the government must give a lead
Briefing for the debate in Scottish Parliament on 7 March on Site-specific Just Transition for Mossmorran Since the publication of A Meaningfully Just Transition for Mossmorran in Summer 2022, progress appears to have stalled. As far as we know, none …
Just Transition planning in key sectors shows that government needs to lead.
Round-table events about Just Transition Plans held by the Partnership in 2023 pointed to shared themes as well as to rich insights into the unique opportunities and challenges in each of three key sectors – Transport, Buildings and Construction, Land …