Just Transitions – LPE Project

Communities of Extraction

Caroline Parker — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000

This post is part of an ongoing series on Just Transitions. The just transitions literature tends to view communities dependent of fossil fuel extraction as homogenously aligned with the extractive industry. In the archetypal coal town, for example, the interests of residents, workers, and the industry appear to align such that threats to the industry are generalizable as threats to the social...

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A Just Transition for Finance

Caroline Parker — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Our dominant financial systems place profits over human rights and the survival of ecosystems. Big banks provided $3.8 trillion to fossil fuel projects over the last 5 years. A private equity firm made $3.5 billion on a single investment that fueled the gentrification and eviction crisis, catching the UN’s attention. And hate groups received $52.8 million of tax-exempt charitable funds in recent...

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Building Local Food Pathways: Food Sovereignty and Climate Justice

James Brandt — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

This post is part of an ongoing series on Just Transitions. *** “In the fluorescent void of the grocery store, we examine the bunches of collards, the bags of okra. Grown in Honduras. Grown in California. Do they eat okra in Honduras? Do they eat collards in California? We double-check the price. They must have flown them over first class. The farmers’ market, the locally grown section...

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REDD+ as the Stranger-King

James Brandt — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

This post is part of an ongoing series on Just Transitions. *** Deforestation is an insidious enemy. The continuing loss and degradation of forest resources in areas such as Brazil and Panama accelerate the threats of the oncoming catastrophes of climate change by eliminating nature’s ability to absorb carbon emissions. To combat this enemy, the international community has designed the “Reducing...

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A Just Transition from Mass Incarceration: The Case of Abolishing Youth Incarceration in Los Angeles

James Brandt — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

This post is part of an ongoing series on Just Transitions. *** Today, in Los Angeles, the possibility of transforming one of the largest juvenile justice systems in the United States is on the horizon. Pushed by social movement actors over many years, the LA County Board of Supervisors has embraced a vision to reimagine the way it handles court-involved youth. This vision potentially includes a...

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The Contested Boundaries of Just Transitions Law

James Brandt — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

This post is part of an ongoing series on Just Transitions. *** In 2014, I was invited to join a research project funded by the Canadian government now known as Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces to Respond to Climate Change (ACW). As the only labor lawyer involved in the project, I had no idea what to say. How would climate change affect labor markets, and what if anything might labor law have...

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Building the New: Just Transitions & LPE

Caroline Parker — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

This is the opening post for our ongoing series on Just Transitions. *** The director of the Churchill Marine Observatory at the University of Manitoba has been quoted as saying, “From the viruses and the bacteria right up to the whales, every single thing is being affected by climate change.” Human institutions, including the governance systems examined by Law and Political Economy...

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