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Jobs and a just transition can deliver climate ambition

November 13, 2021 by Sharan Burrow Leave a Comment

“Governments should work with unions and employers to ensure green jobs: offer good wages, benefits and job security;
provide better training and advancement opportunities;
give workers the right to organise, and are safe and accessible to all.”

Putting energy at the centre of Scotland’s history

August 27, 2021 by Ewan Gibbs Leave a Comment

“..whilst natural resources from coal to oil and gas to wind and tidal have been pivotal to recent Scottish history, we have to understand them in terms of their constitutive role in human social relations. These themes will become only more pivotal as the energy future dominates political discussion and the urgency for socially just climate action continues to grow.”

Energy transition: vital spark of national renewal or dying ember?

January 9, 2021 by Robert Pollock 1 Comment

The story of BiFab, a fabrication yard that symbolised Scotland’s hopes for a “just transition” from North Sea oil to offshore renewables yet went into administration at the end of last year, has salient lessons for Scotland’s future. Profound institutional redesign is required in the near term if national renewal, predicated on disruptive decarbonisation technologies, […]

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