Building Capacities and Strategies of Trade Union Involvement in shaping a Just Transition towards a Sustainable and Decarbonised Industry

Metta, Julie; Guisset, Anne; Vereycken, Yennef; Bachus, Kris; Ramioul, Monique; Hofgärtner, Rosa; Lenaerts, Karolien; Meylemans, Lise; Van Overbeke, Toon

Building Capacities and Strategies of Trade Union Involvement in shaping a Just Transition towards a Sustainable and Decarbonised Industry

Author:

Metta, Julie

Guisset, Anne ; Vereycken, Yennef ; Bachus, Kris ; Ramioul, Monique ; Hofgärtner, Rosa ; Lenaerts, Karolien ; Meylemans, Lise ; Van Overbeke, Toon

Keywords:

Bargaining, Climate Change, Decarbonisation, Net-zero carbon, Trade Union

Abstract:

In the past thirty years, the European Union (EU) has always been a frontrunner in climate action. Recent initiatives, including the presentation of the European Green Deal (December 2019), the Just Transition Mechanism (January 2020), the Climate Law (March 2020), and the Fit for 55 Package (July 2021), have further stirred salience and urgency, and reinforced the EU’s status of climate leader. While the term ‘Just Transition’has its origins in the labour movement (Heyen et al., 2020), it has become one of the key concepts used by the European Commission to refer to its climate policies.