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IOE Just Transition Survey (Employer's Organisations)
1.
What employers' organisation do you belong to?
Name
Headquarters of the respondent organisation
2.
What is the core meaning of a just transition to a low-carbon economy in your organisation's view? Tick up to three options.
Supporting workers in high-carbon sectors
A tripartite process to make decisions for a low-carbon transition (i.e., through the involvement of workers’ organisations, employers’ organisations and government)
Ensuring apprenticeship and new skills, with a focus on the clean energy space
Meeting the fundamental needs of everyone within the planetary, biophysical boundaries (e.g. turning the linear economy into a circular one)
The just distribution of benefits and burdens to a low-carbon society, across the Global North and the Global South, in consideration of gender and intergenerational equity
A leadership responsibility of employers
Ensuring social dialogue
New country-based legislative frameworks that should be grounded in International human rights & labour standards
Other (please specify)
None of the above
3.
What are the three top obstacles to a just transition in the country/countries where your organisation operates?
Being the first mover
Technological gap
Lack of public funds
Failing rule of law
Unpredictable policy change
Unpredictable effects of climate change
The coronavirus pandemic
Re-deployment of workers
Uncertainty over the first steps to take
Lack of best practices
Other (please specify)
None of the above
4.
Is the organisation where you work helping member businesses map and assess the risks and opportunities of just transitions?
Yes
No
5.
What are the three top initiatives of the just transition that your organisation favours the most?
A fund to support workers in high-carbon sectors (public-private partnership)
A fund to support workers in high-carbon sectors (private initiative)
Agreements with workers' organisations for intergenerational solidarity, early retirement, vocational apprenticeships and/or intragroup mobility
Just transition agreements (e.g., with public bodies, companies and workers' organisations)
The decarbonisation of new investments (e.g., to avoid stranded assets)
Social dialogue
Multilateralism
Deploying clean energy projects
Setting 2020 and 2030 targets consistent with the recommendations of the Science Based Targets initiative
Joining climate or sustainability Initiatives
Please specify which climate initiative
None of the above
6.
What are the three top initiatives that the country where your employers' organisation is located should consider or carry out in your view?
A fund to support workers in high-carbon sectors (public-private partnership)
A fund to support workers in high-carbon sectors (public-private initiative)
Social dialogue
Multilateralism
A Hub of Green Industry and Expertise
A national strategy and/or enabling legislative frameworks
Just transition agreements (e.g., with public bodies, companies and workers' organisations)
7.
Do you think that businesses that are members of your organisation should be low-carbon by 2030 and that they should decarbonise by 2050 for meeting the just transition?
Yes
No
8.
Would you like to share a success story that your organisation or other "champions" of just transitions are carrying out/have carried out?
9.
Would you like to add comments or share additional information?