Labour, Climate Policies and Just Transitions

Climate change mitigation policies aspire to transform industries, labour markets and societies worldwide, but who will stand to gain and who will lose? This book examines how unions navigate tensions between advancing climate action and protecting workers’ interests.Using case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, it explores labour’s roles in climate policy and initiatives for Just Transitions under varying socio-economic and political contexts. Identifying opportunities and challenges that will dominate future debates and struggles, the authors demonstrate that the Just Transition is a contested concept imbued with widely differing meanings across the world.