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"This policy brief presents ten key messages for designing and implementing a just green transition in the Nordic Region. Based on findings from the EnIGG and NJUST research projects (2021–2025), the policy brief summarises research and analysis on the social and regional impacts of climate policies, public perceptions, and political feasibility. It highlights the importance of fairness, inclusion, and place-based approaches to maintain public support and avoid reinforcing existing inequalities.

The ten key messages outlined in the policy brief include:

Climate worry outweighs green transition concerns across the Nordics
Many Nordic people expect the green transition to bring benefits
Climate communication should spark hope, especially among young people
Inclusive stakeholder engagement can improve climate policy design and public legitimacy
Emissions reductions are technically feasible but politically challenging
Perceived local and household impacts influence climate policy support
Survey results indicate public support for stronger climate action, even if it means higher taxes
Place-based policies are key to avoid deepening regional inequalities
Job quality and inclusive skills development are important to sustain public support
The Nordic Toolbox offers practical guidance for delivering a just green transition"

"This book navigates the neglected territory where far-right populism intersects with climate change, presenting a nuanced examination that transcends traditional research boundaries.
In recent decades, Europe has grappled with the surge of far-right and populist movements, fueling robust academic debates. Simultaneously, the global discourse on climate change has become increasingly pervasive in societal and political spheres. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of how populist far-right parties discuss climate change within their national contexts, focusing on Germany, Spain, and Austria. Using a meticulous methodology rooted in critical discourse studies, Mirjam Gruber examines the perspectives on climate change held by mainstream parties thereby defining the national policy field. Gruber then delves into the discourse about climate change of populist far-right parties, revealing a complex web of obstructionist arguments intricately tied to the national policy context. By analyzing a diverse array of documents spanning five years, including social media posts, press releases, parliamentary debates, and policy documents, Gruber uncovers a stark contrast between the willingness of mainstream parties to address climate concerns and the obstructionist rhetoric employed by their far-right counterparts. This illuminating exploration underscores the importance of context in understanding political communication and provides profound insights into how different nations frame the climate change narrative."

This work is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

"There has been a lot of attention on the current transition of power taking place in Brussels. The new EU leadership will be confronted with a number of internal and external challenges. They will have deal with economic stagnation, the negative effects of fragmentation and the need to increase the Union's legitimacy. There is no better moment to take stock of the ‘state of the Union' and to look ahead into the next European political cycle (2014-2019), focusing not on personalities but on content: what challenges do we face and what should the EU focus on in the coming years? These new beginnings will encounter new challenges, and who better understands the issues than some of the key players in European politics. Challenge Europe brings these players together and explores what social, political and economic challenges are facing Europe, and its' citizens."

"Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted. Yet research has largely ignored labour and its responses. This book brings together sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, historians, economists, and representatives from international and local unions based in Australia, Brazil, South Africa, Taiwan, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Together they open up a new area of research: Environmental Labour Studies.

The authors ask what kind of environmental policies are unions in different countries and sectors developing. How do they aim to reconcile the protection of jobs with the protection of the environment? What are the forms of cooperation developing between trade unions and environmental movements, especially the so-called Red-Green alliances? Under what conditions are unions striving to create climate change policies that transcend the economic system? Where are they trying to find solutions that they see as possible within the present socio-economic conditions? What are the theoretical and practical implications of trade unions' "Just Transition", and the problems and perspectives of "Green Jobs"? The authors also explore how food workers' rights would contribute to low carbon agriculture, the role workers' identities play in union climate change policies, and the difficulties of creating solidarity between unions across the global North and South.

Trade Unions in the Green Economy opens the climate change debate to academics and trade unionists from a range of disciplines in the fields of labour studies, environmental politics, environmental management, and climate change policy. It will also be useful for environmental organisations, trade unions, business, and politicians."

"L'économie de l'environnement entremêle les questions économiques et d'économie politique les plus complexes en théorie et les plus retorses en pratique : la justice entre les générations, la production et la préservation des biens publics, la gestion des externalités au niveau national et international, la cohérence temporelle des politiques publiques ou encore l'action collective globale et régionale. Supposer un arbitrage entre croissance économique et préservation des ressources naturelles est une façon naïve de poser le problème, lorsque l'on sait que, pour l'essentiel, les outils ont été inventés par l'homme pour transformer la nature. Les véritables arbitrages portent sur les différents modes de développement durable et les moyens pratiques de les mettre en œuvre. La politique environnementale est en effet un art d'exécution : tout est affaire de moyens et de méthodes dès lors que les fins font, sur l'essentiel, l'objet d'un consensus. Ainsi, les États européens sont-ils parvenus à s'accorder sans trop de mal en mars 2007, sous la vigoureuse impulsion de la Présidence allemande, sur l'objectif de réduire unilatéralement de 20 % d'ici à 2020 leurs émissions de gaz à effet de serre par rapport au niveau de 1990. Mais le problème demeure entier : comment ? Comment faire pour que le projet d'une Europe durable ne devienne pas « un agenda de Lisbonne » bis, une immense ambition aux moyens minuscules ?L'analyse économique passe en plein milieu du problème environnemental ainsi défini : elle ne peut guère se prononcer, en amont, sur la validité du consensus scientifique qui s'est construit sur le changement climatique et encore moins, en aval, sur les qualités technologiques respectives des méthodes de limitation des émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Elle peut en revanche à la fois offrir son expertise sur la pertinence des modèles utilisés pour calculer les effets de moyen et long terme du changement climatique sur les modes de vie et trancher le problème de l'efficacité potentielle des systèmes d'incitation envisagés pour atteindre des objectifs environnementaux donnés. La contribution de cet article porte sur ce dernier point. Nous tentons de répondre à la question : l'Union européenne dispose-t-elle du meilleur système institutionnel pour mener à bien sa stratégie environnementale ? Après avoir montré pourquoi tel n'est pas le cas, nous proposons de l'améliorer en instituant une Communauté européenne de l'environnement, de l'énergie et de la recherche dont nous détaillons les objectifs et les instruments."