Just transition
Just transition is the term used to describe the transition to a climate-neutral economy while securing the future and livelihoods of workers and their communities. A just transition to a climate-neutral economy provides and guarantees better and decent jobs, social protection, more training opportunities and greater job security for all workers affected by global warming and climate change policies.
Faigh an t-ábhar is déanaí ar an ábhar seo thíos.
Beartas poiblí iompraíochta glas a mhapáil san AE
Léarscáilítear sa pháipéar seo cé chomh fada is atá na Ballstáit tar éis cumas a fhorbairt agus a chur i bhfeidhm chun beartais den sórt sin atá bunaithe ar iompar a fhorbairt agus a chur i bhfeidhm. Aimsíonn sé difríochtaí suntasacha ar fud an AE, le patrún imníoch: is minic gurb iad na tíortha atá faoi bhrú trasdula is mó na tíortha is lú atá in ann na beartais atá dírithe ar an duine a dhearadh a dhéanfadh é.Earnáil TF i bhfócas: Éabhlóid fhórsa saothair digiteach an AE
Tá an earnáil TFC ag tiomáint digitiú agus glacadh AI ar fud na hEorpa, ach tá ganntanas saothair oilte ag cur bac ar a fás. Scrúdaítear sa tuarascáil seo dálaí fostaíochta agus oibre do speisialtóirí TFC agus na dúshláin a bhaineann le ceann de na hearnálacha is criticiúla san Aontas.Social implications of the just transition: Citizen support, behavioural adaptation, and policy impact in Europe
This research report examines Europeans’ experiences of the green transition at a time when competitiveness has become a central EU policy priority. Using quantitative analysis of EU-wide data, it identifies who supports green policies, who is changing behaviour, and who risks being left behind. Combining this with a comparative policy analysis across all 27 Member States, including reflections on the use of behavioural insights in green public policy, the report highlights critical gaps and provides evidence-based guidance for aligning competitiveness with an effective and equitable green transition.Eurofound's research is shaped by the key challenges for social cohesion and a just transition in a changing environment. It covers the areas of working conditions, industrial relations, employment and living conditions, providing evidence that can assist policy action.
Main topics linked with the move towards a just transition include working conditions and sustainable work, employment and labour markets, digitalisation, the future of manufacturing, people’s living conditions and well-being, restructuring, skills and training and youth, among others. Research findings could potentially feed into the work of the Just Transition Platform, which assists EU Member States and regions to unlock the support available through the Just Transition Mechanism.
Eurofound also collaborates with the European Environment Agency (EEA) on research around the transition to a climate-neutral economy, in particular environmental and socioeconomic convergence.
A just transition at European level focuses on two core issues for transition, moving towards a green and digital Europe where no one will be left behind.
As a committed party to the Paris Climate Agreement, the EU submitted its long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategy to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in March 2020. It sets out the extent of the transition across sectors and regions and lays the ground for designing a just transition.
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Green and digital transition
At the heart of the EU’s long-term strategy is the European Green Deal, which is one of six European Commission priorities for 2019–2024 and the compass to guide Member States towards a green transition that is fair for all citizens. It will contribute to the financing of the transition that Europe faces through its Just Transition Mechanism. In the political guidelines for the next European Commission 2024–2029, Ursula von der Leyen reiterated the importance of staying the course with the European Green Deal goals and committed to a significant increase in funding for a just transition across the next long-term budget. This will go hand in hand with the development of a Quality Jobs Roadmap.
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Responding to the way digital technology is changing our lives, another Commission priority is to create a Europe fit for the digital age, leading the transition to a healthy planet and a new digital world through its European Digital Strategy.
Strong social Europe for just transitions
In January 2020, the European Commission presented its Communication ‘A strong social Europe for just transitions’. This vision to reinforce social Europe prepared the way for an Action Plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights, which is the European social strategy to make sure that the ‘transitions of climate neutrality, digitalisation and demographic change are socially fair and just’.
Eurofound’s work related to the just transition links in with several of the Commission’s 2019–2024 priorities, and is highly relevant here.
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Is rogha é seo de na torthaí is tábhachtaí don ábhar seo.
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2 August 2023
Green, clean and keen to converge? A convergence analysis of environmental quality of life in the EU
This report explores the dynamics of the environmental performance of the EU Member States and the extent to which the disparities in their performance have narrowed since the early 2000s. The report is a product of cooperation between Eurofound and the European Environment Agency, with the technical expertise in convergence of the former meeting the expertise in European environmental issues of the latter. It focuses on three levels of analysis: headline indicators, residential-level indicators and household-level indicators. In order to explore the multifaceted issue of environmental quality of life in the EU, the report investigates environmental indicators through a convergence analysis. The results suggest that the EU is on the right track to becoming carbon neutral, although the speed of the greening process varies among the Member States. A fast and steady improvement in performance can be seen for most of the indicators. One noteworthy finding is that the economic downturns of the past two decades negatively affected the household-level indicators examined, which focused on energy poverty.
19 July 2023
Supporting regions in the just transition: Role of social partners
This report investigates the involvement of social partners in the just transition to a climate-neutral economy, with a particular focus on the territorial just transition plans. These plans aim to support the regions most negatively affected by the just transition by assisting workers to retrain, relocate and find other jobs, and also support industries that need to phase out fossil fuels or other greenhouse gas-intensive activities. The role and input of the social partners in these plans and their views on the just transition are explored. An analysis of social dialogue practices and examples of collective agreements shows the range of topics covered by the social partners. The report also investigates the role of the energy crisis in the just transition and how it has contributed to delays in the implementation of territorial just transition plans in certain Member States.
Soláthraíonn taighdeoirí Eurofound léargas saineolaithe agus is féidir teagmháil a dhéanamh leo le haghaidh ceisteanna nó fiosrúcháin ó na meáin.
Marianna Baggio
Research officerIs oifigeach taighde í Marianna Baggio san aonad Beartais Shóisialta ag Eurofound, ag obair ar ghnéithe den Suirbhé Eorpach ar Cháilíocht na Beatha (EQLS), chomh maith le hábhair thrédhearcacht pá inscne agus cúram neamhfhoirmiúil. Sula ndeachaigh sí isteach i Eurofound, d'fhóin sí mar anailísí beartais ag an Ionad Inniúlachta um Léargais Iompraíochta de chuid Lárionad Comhpháirteach Taighde an Choimisiúin Eorpaigh. D'oibrigh sí mar iardhochtúireacht in Ollscoil Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milano) agus in Ollscoil Trento. Tugann sí taithí fhairsing freisin ó ról roimhe seo mar oifigeach freagrachta sóisialta corparáidí (CSR) san Afraic Theas. Tá PhD san Eacnamaíocht agus sa Bhainistíocht ag Marianna ó Ollscoil Trento, ag speisialtóireacht in eacnamaíocht iompraíochta.
Massimiliano Mascherini
Head of UnitTá Massimiliano Mascherini ina Cheann ar an aonad Beartais Shóisialta ag Eurofound ó mhí Dheireadh Fómhair 2019. Thosaigh sé ag obair le Eurofound in 2009 mar bhainisteoir taighde, ag dearadh agus ag comhordú tionscadail maidir le fostaíocht don aos óg, NEETanna agus comhionannas inscne. In 2017, ceapadh é ina bhainisteoir taighde sinsearach agus bhí sé i gceannas ar thaighde nua ar mhonatóireacht a dhéanamh ar chóineasú san AE. Ina theannta sin, bhí sé i gceannas ar choincheapú an tSuirbhé Eorpaigh ar Cháilíocht na Beatha 2026. In 2025, bronnadh duais Brendan Walsh air don pháipéar is fearr a foilsíodh in Economic and Social Review. Roimhe sin, bhí sé ina oifigeach eolaíochta ag an Airmheán Comhpháirteach Taighde de chuid an Choimisiúin Eorpaigh. Rinne sé staidéar in Ollscoil Florence, áit a ndearna sé staidéar ar eolaíochtaí achtúireach agus staitistiúla agus bhain sé PhD amach i Staitisticí Feidhmeacha. In 2014, fuair sé cáilíocht eolaíoch mar Ollamh Comhlach le Staitisticí Sóisialta agus Déimeagrafaic ó Aireacht Ollscoile agus Taighde na hIodáile. Bhí sé ina chomhalta ar cuairt in Ollscoil Sydney agus in Ollscoil Aalborg agus ina ollamh ar cuairt in Acadamh Pontifical na nEolaíochtaí Sóisialta.
Tina Weber
Senior research managerTina Weber is a senior research manager in Eurofound’s Working Life unit. Her work has focused on labour shortages, the impact of hybrid work and an ‘always on’ culture and the right to disconnect, working conditions and social protection measures for self-employed workers and the impact of the twin transitions on employment, working conditions and industrial relations. She is responsible for studies assessing the representativeness of European social partner organisations. She has also carried out research on European Works Councils and the evolution of industrial relations and social dialogue in the European Union. Prior to joining Eurofound in 2019, she worked for a private research institute primarily carrying out impact assessments and evaluations of EU labour law and labour market policies. Tina holds a PhD in Political Sciences from the University of Edinburgh which focussed on the role of national trade unions and employers’ organisations in the European social dialogue.
Stavroula Demetriades
Senior research managerIs bainisteoir taighde sinsearach í Stavroula Demetriades san aonad Fostaíochta ag Eurofound. Tá sí freagrach as taighde i réimsí an aistrithe ghlais agus chóir, idirphlé sóisialta, cleachtais bhainistíochta, nuálaíocht agus obair hibrideach. Tá PhD aici sa tSocheolaíocht ó Ollscoil Aalborg, an Danmhairg. Tá MSc aici freisin i mBeartais Eacnamaíochta ó Choláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath agus MSc i bhForbairt Réigiúnach ó Ollscoil na hAithne. Sula ndeachaigh sí isteach i Eurofound i 1999, d'oibrigh sí in institiúidí taighde, i bpoist éagsúla san earnáil phoiblí agus san earnáil phríobháideach, agus rinne sí staidéir eagraíochtúla agus socheacnamaíocha. I measc na bpríomhspéiseanna taighde atá aici tá an t-aistriú glas agus cóir, bainistíocht acmhainní daonna, córais oibre, nuálaíocht, fostaíocht agus idirphlé sóisialta. Is ollamh cúnta í freisin sa Scoil Ghnó sa Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath.
Tugann an rannán seo rochtain ar an ábhar ar fad a foilsíodh faoin ábhar.
