Description
All signatories of the Paris Agreement are committed to delivering a ‘Just Transition’. However, past analysis of climate change commitments has revealed relatively little focus on labour market projections or the development of Active Labour Market (ALMP) and Social Protection (SP) policies to facilitate the mobility of labour from polluting to green/sustainable sectors and occupations. Further, scholarly attention to the assessing the way that ALMP/SP design might promote Just Transition is also only yet emergent. This paper will first propose a typology for understanding new social risk in Just Transition efforts (developed in line with materialist feminist Social Reproduction Theory) and ALMP/SP and then include a detailed analysis of the third wave of Nationally Determined Contributions to assess the extent to which they include discussion of ALMP/SPs aligned to delivering a Just Transition.
