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Just Transition in Scotland

It’s time for a Just Transition, moving to a modern zero-carbon economy in ways which protect workers’ livelihoods, create a new industrial base and deliver a fairer deliver a fairer Scotland. Action is urgently needed to avert the climate crisis and to re-balance the economy to one which provides decent jobs making things in clean ways.

Plans for this transition so far have not been ambitious enough and progress has been slow. There has been little planning to ensure the protection of the people most affected, in particular those who work in sectors reliant on fossil fuels. Workers should be able to redeploy to new sectors and opportunities for retraining must be expanded.

Action to stop greenhouse gas emissions can create good jobs and improve everyone’s lives. But, done wrongly, it could instead entrench trends towards precarious work and economic inequality, while risking a backlash against climate action. Justice has to be built in – a just transition is essential.


The Just Transition Challenge in Scotland

We need urgent action and intervention by the Scottish and UK Governments, whose role it is to set the pace for change, and create a clear and consistent policy framework to deliver it.

Publicly-owned institutions will have to lead the way and their capacity has to be backed up with the investment to deliver just transition priorities.

Read more about our demands of the Scottish Government

Scottish Government and Just Transition

Principles in legislation, a Commission of advisers and a new Minister – Just Transition features prominently across Scottish Government messaging.

However, beneath the surface there is too little being delivered for workers, communities or climate. We push for more transformative action across policy.

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Recent documents

  • The Just Transition Challenge in Scotland
  • The Just Transition Partnership Manifesto 2021
  • Joint Statement on Just Transition

Recent documents

Press Release
June 1, 2023

Support for offshore workers on strike – union organisation is vital for defending energy workers both now and in the future

Strong union organisation is vital for defending energy workers both now and in the future The Partnership issued this statement on the first day of two new rounds of 48-hour strike action in an increasingly bitter dispute over jobs, pay …

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Policy & Briefings
May 2, 2023

Draft Energy Strategy “not a strategy, not a Just Transition Plan”

COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT ENERGY STRATEGY AND JUST TRANSITION PLAN OF THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT While the Just Transition Partnership endorses the vision for ‘a just transition to a net zero energy system’, we are very concerned that the draft Energy …

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Policy & Briefings
March 7, 2023

Just Transition for the Grangemouth area – JTP submission

SUBMISSION TO THE ECONOMY AND FAIR WORK COMMITTEE INQUIRY The Just Transition Partnership* includes leading organisations in the trade union and environmental sectors and has played a significant role in creating the commitment in Scotland to policies for Just Transition. …

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Press Release
February 8, 2023

Reclaiming Our Energy: online conference 21 February

As the Scottish Government consults on its revised energy strategy, we are taking the opportunity to make the case that public ownership of energy production and infrastructure is an essential part of any plans to hit climate change targets. This …

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