Just Cessation: How Might the Climate Imperative to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Extraction Reshape the Concept of Just Transition?

FLANAGAN, F

Just Cessation: How Might the Climate Imperative to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Extraction Reshape the Concept of Just Transition?

FLANAGAN, F

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Publisher:: Kluwer Law International
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 2023, 39, (3-4), pp. 393-418
Issue Date:: 2023-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	FLANAGAN, F
dc.date.accessioned	2024-08-09T00:01:13Z
dc.date.available	2024-08-09T00:01:13Z
dc.date.issued	2023-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 2023, 39, (3-4), pp. 393-418
dc.identifier.issn	0952-617X
dc.identifier.issn	1875-838X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/180374
dc.description.abstract	Just transition has emerged as a master conceptual framework for limiting environmental and socially destructive industrial activity in the climate change era. While it has been widely embraced, its anchoring in the open-ended concept of sustainable development has meant that it has been used to legitimate ongoing future fossil fuel extraction. This article discusses the implications for just transition that arise from the recognition that the timely cessation of fossil fuel extraction is the sine qua non of the realization of the sustainable development goals. It offers a historical explanation for the minimal engagement to date between just transition advocacy and fossil fuel cessation. It then discusses the implications of acknowledging the necessity of fossil fuel cessation in terms of core labour law principles. Finally, the article outlines the implications of explicitly embedding fossil fuel phase down as an objective of just transition for government actors and social partners.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Kluwer Law International
dc.relation.ispartof	International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.54648/IJCL2023026
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dc.subject	1503 Business and Management, 1801 Law
dc.subject.classification	3505 Human resources and industrial relations
dc.subject.classification	4801 Commercial law
dc.subject.classification	4803 International and comparative law
dc.title	Just Cessation: How Might the Climate Imperative to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Extraction Reshape the Concept of Just Transition?
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Abstract:

Just transition has emerged as a master conceptual framework for limiting environmental and socially destructive industrial activity in the climate change era. While it has been widely embraced, its anchoring in the open-ended concept of sustainable development has meant that it has been used to legitimate ongoing future fossil fuel extraction. This article discusses the implications for just transition that arise from the recognition that the timely cessation of fossil fuel extraction is the sine qua non of the realization of the sustainable development goals. It offers a historical explanation for the minimal engagement to date between just transition advocacy and fossil fuel cessation. It then discusses the implications of acknowledging the necessity of fossil fuel cessation in terms of core labour law principles. Finally, the article outlines the implications of explicitly embedding fossil fuel phase down as an objective of just transition for government actors and social partners.

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