Summary
Just Transition is a framework for moving whole communities from an extractive economy to a regenerative one, in a way that is itself fair. The idea was first forged by labour unions and environmental justice groups who wanted polluting industries phased out without abandoning the people who worked in them. The Climate Justice Alliance and Movement Generation widened it into a strategy, published in 2017: stop the bad, build the new, and move resources and power to workers and frontline communities.
Its test is process as much as destination: the Alliance says Just Transition describes “both where we are going and how we get there”.
Rationale
Its rule that an unjust process can’t yield a just outcome is our concern too: Part 1 warns that we replicate destructive dispositions “in both the things we do and the way we do them”.
Source: climatejusticealliance.org · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0