In this week’s GLC, Brian Kohler focuses on Sustainability, Just Transition and Trade Unions. Kohler argues that “Working people and their unions want a future in which the environment is protected and where sustainable industries create decent, safe and healthy work.” Thus, that is the importance of the Justice Transition which “charts a pathway towards a sustainable future, and addresses the problem of who benefits from it, and who pays the price for adjustments demanded to get there.” A Just Transition places emphasis on the importance of environmental protection and at the same time it requires three elements: “(1) sustainable industrial policy; (2) robust social protection or “safety nets”; (3) wide-reaching and creative labour adjustment programs” Brian Kohler is Director for Health, Safety and Sustainability at IndustriALL Global Union. A life-long trade unionist, Brian is presently working on his PhD in sustainable energy systems.

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