UNRISD 7d ago

This webinar draws on the domestic and community care chapter of the recently published report on "Care Work in the Just Transition: An International Inquiry," focusing on the significance of the just transition strategy for domestic and community-caring workers. Just transition is a strategy originally developed by labour environmentalists and soon adopted by environmental justice organizations. The strategy called for public policies to ensure socially and environmentally just transitions for the workers and the communities affected by massive shifts in economic activities driven by environmental policies. With the rise of climate politics the strategy came to focus on decarbonization and the workers and communities in the energy sector. While recognizing the significance of climate change and the need for a just energy transition, this report seeks to expand the scope of just transition to all workers and communities, particularly those in the care sector, which includes multiple forms of work, paid and unpaid, that are essential to human and nonhuman wellbeing. Considering housework as a set of tasks performed in both domestic and community caring, that are key to social and ecological wellbeing, this report has been built on testimonies from four representatives of domestic and community carers working in Italy, Peru, the UK, and at the international level, integrated by a desk review of recent reports on care work in the planetary crisis. Learn more → https://www.unrisd.org/en/library/publications/just-transition-and-care-work-an-international-inquiry