The just transition: a systems-thinking approach to managing climate action
- Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024
- xxi, 351 p.
Table of contents: Front Matter Pages i-xxi Download chapter PDF Introducing Just Systems Front Matter Pages 1-1 Download chapter PDF Introduction: Why a Just Transition? John Morrison Pages 3-15 Transition as a Complex System John Morrison Pages 17-39 Systems That Bend Towards Justice John Morrison Pages 41-63 Centering People Within Climate Transitions Front Matter Pages 65-65 Download chapter PDF Workers John Morrison Pages 67-83 Indigenous Peoples John Morrison Pages 85-105 Communities John Morrison Pages 107-122 Consumers John Morrison Pages 123-137 Gender and Diversity John Morrison Pages 139-152 Financial Systems and the Transition Front Matter Pages 153-153 Download chapter PDF Disclosures and Reporting John Morrison Pages 155-168 Transforming Financial Systems John Morrison Pages 169-185 Transitions Along Value Chains Front Matter Pages 187-187 Download chapter PDF Renewable Energy John Morrison Pages 189-205 Transition in Cities John Morrison Pages 207-226 Energy Transition Minerals John Morrison Pages 227-243 Just Food Systems John Morrison Pages 245-264 Managing Just Systems Front Matter Pages 265-265 [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-69848-4]
Managing the climate transition will be one of the biggest challenges ever faced by business and government.
While the technical and financial elements of climate transition are vast, the social challenges are even greater. If local populations and workers feel the transitions are not “just” they will resist, and that social opposition now represents one of the greatest barriers to reaching Net Zero by 2050. While the phrase ‘Just Transition’ was in the preamble to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, it is only now that business, finance and governments are starting to discuss what this might mean in practice.
Thousands of companies are now starting to develop transition plans alongside those of governments. This book shows how all managers can best integrate social elements into these plans, consult with the people most affected by the transition out of the high carbon economy, and ensure that what looks good on paper works in practice. It takes a systems-thinking approach, focusing on the interconnections and interdependence of environmental, social and governance issues.
The challenge is immense, and the changes will need to be profound. Each chapter in the book will look at the main domains in which management and policy challenges will be faced. From massively increasing the extraction of rare earth metals, most of which sit below, or adjacent to, indigenous land, to building the infrastructure needed to generate and distribute green energy, possibly over “Not in My Back Yard’ objections, the task of business and government in ensuring that these changes are fair, and perceived as fair, is immense.
This book provides the roadmap for how to get there. Managing the social impacts of the climate transition will be one of the biggest challenges ever faced by business and government.