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:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:recercat____::d6f9d44e0a25eb616d6eb29bf40c0b73
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.