
JUSTDECARB
Socially Just and Politically Robust Decarbonisation: A Knowledge Base and Toolkit for Policymakers
The JUSTDECARB project brings together social science and humanities researchers from four disciplines (philosophy, political science, economics, and law) across four countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Norway, and UK) in pursuit of two overarching project objectives:
1. To fill critical gaps in the about how low-carbon transitions can be structured so that they are not only socially just, but are also perceived to be so by key stakeholders, thus enhancing the transition’s political robustness.
2. To develop a ‘toolkit’ to help European policymakers steer transition processes in a socially just and politically robust direction.
Project website https://cicero.oslo.no/no/prosjekter/justdecarb
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We develop a novel method to precisely identify low carbon jobs,and reveal that low skilled workers will be more adversely affected by changing skill requirements in the low carbon transition.
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We have explored predictors of opposition against climate policy among the Norwegian public,finding that this opposition appears to be part of an anti-elitist identity struggle against societal changes more generally.
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We aim to provide guidance on how policymakers should consider human rightswhile developing just transition policies, and how to balance potentially colliding human rights using legal principles.
About
Our aim is to engage with senior decision makers in both policy (governments, lawmakers) and civil society (businesses, NGOs), primarily but not exclusively in our partner countries. We engage with these stakeholders to build an understanding of the societal and economic challenges posed by decarbonization. We aim to provide them with decision-relevant information (a “toolkit”) that improves their decarbonisation strategies and advances a socially just and politically robust zero-carbon transition in Europe. We have also hosted a session at the UN High-Level Dialogue on Energy on the topic of energy poverty.
Project leader
Dr. Håkon Sælen is a senior researcher at CICERO Center for International Climate Research, with a background in economics and political science. His research interests include individual behaviour, public attitudes to climate policy instruments, fairness perceptions in international climate negotiations, and the Paris Agreement. He has experience conducting and analyzing surveys, behavioural experiments, and focus groups. He is also lead-PI of the project Right-Wing populism and the Political Feasibility of Climate Policy.
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SOLSTICE
Enabling Societal Transformation in the Face of Climate Change
SOLSTICE is a joint transnational call for proposals. JPI Climate invited the SSH community to take the lead and to submit proposals that address the societal aspects of climate change. Building on an emerging trend of research, SOLSTICE offered a transnational framework with higher levels of funding than before. The rationale for this call was outlined in the JPI Climate's 2019 White Paper on societal transformation in the face of climate change.
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