What do we do? 

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Seeing the Just Transition agenda as a crucial platform for demanding socially just climate and environmental policies, the Just Transition and Care (JTC) initiative aims to facilitate an international conversation around the relevance of both social and environmental care work to the politics of just transition.

It develops interactions between academic researchers and  stakeholders (including workers’ representatives, activists, and community-economy actors) over the course of  five webinars taking place between June 2021 and April 2023. Each webinar addresses a different aspect of the nexus between ecological transitions and care work through the experiences and perspectives of different stakeholders, with academics playing the role of facilitators and active listeners. 

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Based on the knowledge co-created through the webinar series, academics part of the initiative will formulate a public statement and policy recommendations at the end of the process. All participants will be invited to discuss the document at a final workshop to be held in 2023. 

Who? 

The JTC network includes: stakeholders - workers’ representatives, environmental and climate justice activists, community economy actors - and researchers from social science and sustainability studies.

How?

Participants are invited to contribute to an online conversation at the webinars and then to an in-person workshop that will take place in 2023. The online conversation is part of a series of five themed meetings that are held between three or four stakeholders and a researcher. These meetings aim to facilitate a constructive dialogue that can uncover the multiple forms and experiences of care work in different contexts, and to discuss what a just transition would look like from the point of view of carers. At the workshop we will build upon the knowledge co-produced through the five meetings to discuss the next steps to be taken by the network.