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Just Swedish Transport Industry Transitions (JUSTIT) aims to assess the impact of low-carbon transition on transport workers in Sweden and to support trade unions, government and businesses with designing policies and strategies to ensure a just transition.
2020–2025
A transition to low-carbon based transport modes is indispensable to reach net-zero emissions and curb further global warming. Sweden has embarked on a journey to become the first fossil fuel-free welfare state in the world by 2045 and to do so based on legitimacy, trust, justice and acceptance. This process will bring significant technological and organizational changes to the transport sector, with likely profound implications for workers, in terms of their working life, health, safety, identity and skill requirements.
Together with the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union, the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies and Lund University’s Division of Human Rights Studies, the JUSTIT project will investigate:
The project will provide new insights on how to navigate the fossil-free transition in a fair way and how to ensure it goes hand in hand with improvements in working life for transport workers. This will help in creating a broadly shared vision of a fossil-free welfare society and identifying governance interventions that enable an effective and just fossil-free transition in the transport sector.
Perspective / Insights from the JUSTIT project highlight the critical balance between environmental goals and workers' rights in Sweden.
12 February 2024 / About Innovation, Participation, Sustainable lifestyles and Transport
Other publication / This paper analyses the distributional impacts of these trends on workers in the Swedish transport sector through semi-structured interviews:
12 February 2024 / About Supply Chains and Transport
Perspective / Transport workers voice concerns about technology, safety and working conditions in Swedish transport sector's rapid shift to reach net-zero by 2045.
13 June 2023 / About Transport
Project / RADISAM investigates Nordic settler colonialism and its impact on present day Indigenous land rights and discrimination against the Sámi.
2024 - 2027 / About Forests, Land use and Public policy
Journal article / This paper presents survey findings, revealing key factors shaping transport choices and offering policy insights for sustainable infrastructure development.
20 March 2024 / About Behaviour and choice and Transport
Press release / A tool, which is helping to monitor decarbonization in the cement industry, has now been expanded to include the production of calcined clays – a key cement decarbonization solution.
11 March 2024 / About Business, Climate policy and Public policy
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