Just Transition
Environmental issues have become a campaigning priority for The Labour Party, however there is no guarantee this will ensure social, economic, and environmental justice for workers. Environmental policymaking around employment is inherently political: on the one hand, if an environmental agenda is used to maintain the status quo then environmental policies can be portrayed as out of touch with the needs of workers and their communities. A jobs-versus-the-environment narrative would put climate issues in opposition to jobs and livelihoods. On the other hand, there is the potential to create an ambitious industrial strategy which can fundamentally transform political and economic reality at all levels of the UK. An active industrial strategy committed to such a Just Transition would see hundreds of thousands of unionised green jobs, improved employment relations and a more democratic, publicly owned economy.