Giulia Laganà of the Just Transition Centre: “Tackling the climate crisis is a question of political will; unions can help to push governments to reacquire that”

Giulia Laganà, director of the ITUC’s award-winning Just Transition Centre, speaks to Equal Times about what the transition to a low-carbon economy looks like in practice and why the imperfect COP process is still the best way to prevent total climate breakdown.Read the full article

By Arthur Neslen

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, Collective bargaining, Decent work, Green jobs, Climate crisis, Trade unions, Extractive industries, Just transition

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