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Chapter 7: Inside the Federal Government: Mobilizing Policy Tools for the Green Transition
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives The federal decision-making machinery is governed by conventional, hierarchical norms regarding decision-making roles and responsibilities, and tends toward closed decision processes in which...
Chapter 6: Environmental Law for a Just Transition
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives Environmental law has furthered ‘extractivism’, a mode of accumulation that necessitates both a high pace and a large scale of taking, that is non-reciprocal, and that produces intense,...
Chapter 5: Business and Multi-Sectoral Collaboration for Sustainability Transitions
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives Each of the three sectoral spheres – the market, the state and civil society – has a logic defined by its governance norms, or the intentions, functions, and rules of interaction by which it...
Chapter 4: Environmental Activism and Strategies for the Green Transition
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives There are a wide range of perspectives within the environmental movement in Canada regarding the roots of environmental decline, the necessity of a Green Transition and how deeply our economic,...
Chapter 3: Canadian Public Opinion and the Green Transition
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages Perspectives Broadly, Canadians understand the climate crisis is real, and that the window of opportunity to address it is lessening Canadians clearly support an energy transition, even in oil and gas...
Chapter 2: Indigenous Knowledge and the Way Forward
[Click here for printable PDF] Highlights Drawing from his traditional Huron-Wendat teachings and knowledges, as well as his research experience in different North American regions, in this chapter Sioui provides a broad discussion of the value of...
Chapter 1: What is a ‘just transition’? Perspectives, Processes, Policy
[Click here for printable PDF] Key Messages (Draft) Perspectives Workers and unions have been the focal point of just transitions advocacy and actions, with a focus on the retraining, relocation and preferential hiring of workers. Broader perspectives...
Table of Contents
[Click here for printable PDF] Introduction Debora L. VanNijnatten Part 1: Setting the Context Chapter 1. What do we mean by a ‘just transition’? Tamara Krawchenko, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria, tamarakrawchenko@uvic.ca Kara...
Project Overview
[Click here for printable PDF] Canada has reached an inflection point in its political, economic and social evolution as a nation – will its future be ‘green’ or ‘brown’? Since 2016, the Trudeau Liberal government has committed to ambitious climate and...