Just Transition Research Collaborative Workshop

The concept of the Just Transition away from fossil fuels and towards low-carbon development is increasingly popular and being used in international climate negotiations and debates on sustainable futures. The growing popularity and uptake of Just Transition has fostered the emergence of different understandings and narratives around it. The Just Transition Research Collaborative is mapping and analysing these different framings and will provide an important contribution to the science-policy dialogue on how the approach can be used to foster the transition to equitable low-carbon development.

A 1.5 day workshop held in Bonn brings together academic and activist members of the Collaborative to take stock of how the Just Transition is being used in policy-making and civil-society debates and to present a number of case studies from the global North and South. The workshop is co-organized by UNRISD and the University of London Institute in Paris, and supported by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. It serves as a basis for further discussions and the future work of the collaborative that will feed into a policy report on Just Transition planned for publication in December 2018.


5 MAY

09:15-09:45	Welcome and Housekeeping	Till Bender, Ethan Earle (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung)
09:45-10:00	Workshop Introduction	Dunja Krause (UNRISD), Edouard Morena (University of London Institute in Paris)
GENEALOGY AND FRAMING OF THE JUST TRANSITION
10:00-10:20	Overview of Just Transition Framings	Edouard Morena (ULIP), Rebecca Shelton (Arizona State University)
10:20-10:40	Historical Overview of Just Transition	Dimitris Stevis (Colorado State University), Romain Felli (University of Lausanne)
10:40-11:40	Q&A and Discussion
11:40-12:00	Coffee Break
GEOGRAPHIES OF THE JUST TRANSITION
12:00-12:20	South Africa	Jacklyn Cock (University of Witwatersrand), Sandra van Niekerk (Public Services International Research Unit)
12:20-12:40	Brazil	Diego Azzi (Federal University of ABC, Sao Paolo)
12:40-13:20	Q&A and Discussion
13:20-14:00	Lunch
GEOGRAPHIES OF THE JUST TRANSITION (CONTINUED)
14:00-14:20	Philippines	Josua Mata (SENTRO)
14:20-14:40	United States	Dimitris Stevis, Rebecca Shelton
14:40-15:00	Canada	Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
15:00-15:40	Q&A and Discussion
15:40-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-16:20	East Africa	Nicole Helmerich (University of Lausanne)
16:20-17:00	Just Transition in the International Policy Space	Tadzio Müller (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung)
17:00-18:00	Q&A and Discussion
6 MAY
10:00-11:00	Breakout Groups on sections of the planned report: 1) Narratives and framing of Just Transition 2) Case studies
11:00-11:45	Report from Breakout Groups and discussion on report structure
11:45-12:00	Coffee Break
12:00-13:00	Conclusion: Next steps/way forward
		Discussants
		Damian White (Rhode Island School of Design) Joachim Roth (UNRISD) Vivian Price (California State University) Manuela Matthess (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) Nadja Charaby (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung) Eike Hägerbäumer (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung)

Follow the Just Transition Research Collaborative on Twitter @JTRC2018 and find out more about the case studies in the think piece series.

Photo: Ethan Earle, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung New York Office