The Green Transition will be just - Or it won't succeed

The European Commission defines the Green Transition as the transformation set out in the European Green Deal. Ensuring that this transition is just is both an ethical requirement and a practical condition for maintaining public support and policy effectiveness. This Perspective proposes a multidime...

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Autores: Prainsack, Barbara, Neves, Maria Patrão, Sahlin, Nils-Eric, Biller-Andorno, Nikola, van den Hoven, Jeroen, Laukyte, Migle, Luków, Paweł, Molnar-Gabor, Fruzsina, Murphy, Thérèse, Sharon, Tamar, Vidalis, Takis, Kritikos, Mihalis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2026
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:rdupf_______::edb5bb5f055b2087d57e7ad91685494e
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10230/73340
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2026.10437
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Just Green Transition
Climate justice
Equity
Participatory justice
European climate policy
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Sumario:The European Commission defines the Green Transition as the transformation set out in the European Green Deal. Ensuring that this transition is just is both an ethical requirement and a practical condition for maintaining public support and policy effectiveness. This Perspective proposes a multidimensional framework for assessing justice in Green Transition policies, encompassing distributional, procedural, recognitional, corrective, and transitional dimensions. Considering these dimensions in conjunction helps identify where justice claims converge and where genuine policy trade-offs arise, which should be made transparent and addressed through public deliberation. It sheds light on additional justice considerations which tend to get overlooked in many policy debates that focus predominantly on distributional justice concerns. Moreover, its multidimensionality is helpful in overcoming zero-sum framings which often present impediments for embedding justice throughout the policy cycle.