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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

Policy & Briefings
May 19, 2022

Wide and diverse: unions on just transition at the STUC Congress

Debates at the STUC’s 2022 Congress displayed the depth of engagement with just transition by unions in Scotland and the breadth of contributions to the struggle for climate justice across the world. This can be seen in the speeches of …

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Policy & Briefings, Uncategorized
April 22, 2022

Oil and gas price rises fuel the case for a just transition now

The dramatic rise in the prices of oil and gas, compounded by the reductions in supplies as a result of the war in Ukraine, have demonstrated the failings of our broken energy system. The social and environmental damage it causes …

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Policy & Briefings
January 13, 2022

Next steps for Just Transition in Scotland

In its Just Transition Plans, the Scottish Government will have to implement, but also go beyond, the recommendations of the Just Transition Commission December 2021 The Partnership’s views on the reports of the first Just Transition Commission, the proposals from …

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Press Release
December 15, 2021

New Commission Must Ensure Action on Just Transition

A partnership of Trade Unions and environmental groups(1), has welcomed the announcement of a second Just Transition Commission for which it has long campaigned.  It said the time had come to move from words to action and start delivering the …

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