Date: 2023
Type: Article
Varieties of just transition? : eco-social policy approaches at the international level
Social policy and society, 2023, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 730-746
CIGNA, Luca Michele, FISCHER, Torben, HASANAGIC ABUANNAB, Emina, HEINS, Elke, RATHGEB, Philip, Varieties of just transition? : eco-social policy approaches at the international level, Social policy and society, 2023, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 730-746
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‘Just transition’ is a concept originally developed by the labour movement to reconcile workers’ rights with the necessity to combat climate change. More recently, supra- and international organisations have also adopted this idea. However, it remains unclear to what extent these actors follow the eco-social ambitions of organised labour. In this article, we develop a conceptual framework to capture diverse just transition approaches by distinguishing between the goal, policy, and governance dimension. We apply a multi-method approach to gauge the extent of variation in the just transition conceptualisations of three actors: the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the European Union (EU). We identify a cleavage between the ILO where just transition refers to an ambitious eco-social agenda on the one hand, and the IMF’s emphasis on macroeconomic adaptation on the other. The EU takes up a middle position by promoting a ‘green growth’ strategy with medium emphasis on environmental and social risk mitigation.
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Published online: 13 October 2023
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76232
Full-text via DOI: 10.1017/S1474746423000192
ISSN: 1474-7464; 1475-3073
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2023-2025)
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