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Introduction to the Special Issue: The North–South Politics of Global Just Transitions

Chukwumerije Okereke et al.

Global Environmental Politics2025https://doi.org/10.1162/glep.a.27article
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Abstract

Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, the concept of “just transition” has gained global prominence. Initially centered on integrating fossil fuel workers and communities into emerging green economies in industrialized nations, it has since broadened to encompass long-standing North–South debates on climate justice while introducing new dimensions to global environmental and climate politics. This special issue, “The North–South Politics of Global Just Transitions,” examines the increasingly complex and contested global politics of just transitions. Framed as pathways to achieving climate goals while addressing deep-rooted socioeconomic and historical justice challenges, just transition has become central to multilevel climate policy and governance. Yet, important questions persist regarding its normative content, its relationship to climate justice, its transformative potential, and whether it challenges or reinforces existing political and economic inequalities between developed and developing countries. This special issue interrogates these dynamics by analyzing the evolving contestations shaping the global politics of just transitions.

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  title        = {{Introduction to the Special Issue: The North–South Politics of Global Just Transitions}},
  author       = {Chukwumerije Okereke et al.},
  journal      = {Global Environmental Politics},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1162/glep.a.27},
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