Our findings reveal the The University of Queensland importance of understanding how the idea of a just transition is used, and by who, and the type of justice that underpins this concept. [...] As we argue below, the The rising popularity of the idea signals a growing awareness about just transition concept could soon become another ‘empty signifier’, deepening inequalities between the rich and poor of the world linking together a range of demands and differences, thus limiting the (Alston, 2020; Bainton & McDougall, 2021), and how the climate and possibility of contestation (Laclau, 199. [...] The question is whether they will also engage the harm and the have shrunk, stretched and reinterpreted the meaning of the term environmental costs of this transition. [...] that offers the ‘maximum’ protection and benefit for the greatest Procedural considerations include the extent to which local and number of people and the widest range of predicaments. [...] As we have demonstrated, the future strengthen the remedial dimensions of the ‘protect, respect and rem- demand for ETMs, and the burdens that this will unleash, eclipses the edy’ framework that underpins the UN Guiding Principles on Business purported principles contained within mainstream renditions of the and Human Rights.
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