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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Call for just transition principles to be applied to moves towards a circular economy
The Just Transition Partnership has called for just transition principles to be applied to building a Circular Economy in its submission to the consultation by the Scottish Government on Delivering Scotland’s circular economy – A Route Map to 2025:- A …
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 …