Challenges and lessons learned for leaving no one behind in green transitions - Perspectives from Croatia, Austria and The Netherlands
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Tue, Sep 26, 2023 10:00 AM - Tue, Sep 26, 2023 12:30 PM
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Background
The European Green Deal (EGD) aims to transform the EU into a fair and prosperous society, with climate neutrality in 2050. European societies should undergo a transition towards a carbon-neutral society. The EGD seeks to design deeply transformative transition strategies, under the principle of leaving no one behind. This implies that no European citizen should be put at a disadvantage because of the EGD. In this regard, gaps and societal barriers concerning the social acceptance of transition strategies need to be addressed. There is a need to better understand the link between transition strategies and the impact on marginalised communities, to understand the causes and consequences of growing polarisation vis-à-vis transition strategies and to give citizens more influence on how the transition will take place.
Key Project: BOLSTER
BOLSTER - Bridging Organisations and marginalised communities for Local Sustainability Transitions in EuRope is a 36 month Horizon Europe project that aims understand how marginalised communities are affected by EGD-related policies and whether involving them in decision-making processes increases the support for transition plans. BOLSTER will deliver new scientific evidence on decarbonisation transition strategies and how they intersect with various dimensions of inequality, such as gender, race, age and class. It will conceptualise the principle of leaving no one behind by developing participatory governance models and transition guidelines based on climate justice and gender equality. BOLSTER will launch action research in ten European regions. Seven of those regions are at high risk of being affected by the EGD, as they have a high concentration of carbon-intensive industries. The other three regions have already undergone an economic transition and will be studied in order to learn from the past.
Helix Ecosystem
The Just Transition Helix is an international Open Innovation community of specialists in social inequalities and related disciplines. Researchers, industry actors, national/EU-level policy makers, civil society and participants of other relevant projects and relevant actors across Europe/the world are invited to join the Helix.
The Just Transition Helix was launched as a focus for impact and dissemination services in support of the BOLSTER project's ambition to foster a truly collaborative ecosystem. In achieving this ambition, BOLSTER will contribute towards facilitating the transformation to a climate neutral society.
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the European Union
The BOLSTER project (Bridging Organizations and marginalized communities for Local Sustainability Transitions in EuRope) aims to understand how marginalised communities are affected by European Green Deal (EGD)-related policies and to see whether involving them in decision-making processes increases the support for transition plans. The project, coordinated by Tilburg University, began in September 2022 and will deliver new scientific evidence on decarbonisation transition strategies and how they intersect with various dimensions of inequality, such as gender, race, age and class. It will conceptualise the principle of leaving no one behind by developing participatory governance models and transition guidelines based on climate justice and gender equality. In this framework, ECAS and the BOLSTER consortium partners are organising a series of 10 regional policy dialogues focused on the project’s target regions and 3 EU policy dialogues. The aim for this first regional dialogue, focusing primarily on Croatia, is to stimulate cross-regional policy learning among regions affected by Just Transition and green transition processes. We will invite regional policy-makers, NGO representatives, local industries, and academics to discuss challenges and lessons learned in these processes.
