Just Swedish Transport Industry Transitions (JUSTIT) aims to assess the impact of low-carbon transition on transport workers in Sweden and to support trade unions, government and businesses with designing policies and strategies to ensure a just transition.
2020–2025
A transition to low-carbon based transport modes is indispensable to reach net-zero emissions and curb further global warming. Sweden has embarked on a journey to become the first fossil fuel-free welfare state in the world by 2045 and to do so based on legitimacy, trust, justice and acceptance. This process will bring significant technological and organizational changes to the transport sector, with likely profound implications for workers, in terms of their working life, health, safety, identity and skill requirements.
Together with the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union, the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies and Lund University’s Division of Human Rights Studies, the JUSTIT project will investigate:
The project will provide new insights on how to navigate the fossil-free transition in a fair way and how to ensure it goes hand in hand with improvements in working life for transport workers. This will help in creating a broadly shared vision of a fossil-free welfare society and identifying governance interventions that enable an effective and just fossil-free transition in the transport sector.
Project / This project aims to bring consumption-based emissions into the agenda-setting process in the lead-up to the June 2024 European Parliamentary elections.
2023 - 2024 / About Pollution, Public policy, Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable lifestyles and Transport
Perspective / Three perspectives on how to get to a fair and just transport transition, for people that must use and work in transportation.
12 September 2023 / About Fossil fuels, Innovation and Transport
Event on 16 November / SEI Tallinn, the City of Tallinn and Baltic Environmental Forum Estonia will hold a conference on transitioning to green governance.
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