Employment and energy transition

The urgency of climate change is clear: we now need to change all our production activities and professions in order to decarbonize them, and reduce the overall impact of our economies on the environment. This far-reaching transition is alternately presented as a means of achieving wealth-creating green growth, or as a process leading to inevitable economic regression. Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline goes beyond this divided interpretation to review the current state of knowledge on the effects of the energy transition, and more broadly the ecological transition, on employment. She shows that this identification work is an essential prerequisite for the implementation of macroeconomic and support policies to achieve a just transition, one that is not achieved at the expense of people currently working in the most polluting sectors