Net zero transition needs significant investment to avoid failure, report warns
Scotland’s route to net zero must include significant investment to avoid failure, a report has warned.
Just Transition Commission (JTC)
Scotland is not on track to deliver Just Transition, Commission says
The Just Transition Commission claims that Scotland is not on track to deliver, and that “significant” further action is needed to support the workforce.
‘Nationalise it’: Unions lament Grangemouth refinery plans as ‘kick in the teeth’
Union leaders slammed plans to cease operations at Grangemouth’s crude refinery and called for nationalisation, while just transition campaigners called for a ‘credible plan’ to protect workers.
Just Transition commissioner warns of ‘Field of Dreams’ approach to net zero
A union leader involved in guiding Scotland’s just transition has warned of the danger of wishful thinking around how net-zero efforts will deliver such plans.
Report calls for energy roadmap as Just Transition faces ‘perfect storm’
The second report from Scotland’s Just Transition Commission (JTC) presses the importance of workforce planning, transmission reform and an energy roadmap, as a “perfect storm” threatens progress.
Colette Cohen: Making the future with a just transition
As the UK battles energy security, soaring energy prices and a cost-of-living crisis with inflation rising at its fastest rate for 40 years, the challenge of a just transition has never been more imperative.
SNP delays new ‘Just Transition’ plan on future of North Sea oil and gas
A promised plan to help Scotland shift away from North Sea oil and gas is being delayed until after the local government elections.
Smaller oil and gas firms ‘less developed in their thinking’ about energy transition – report
Smaller North Sea oil and gas firms are “less developed in their thinking” around the current energy transition and the need to diversify their business, according to a new energy sector report.
Scotland’s energy transition must be ‘fair’ and cannot ‘decimate jobs’, First Minister warns
The energy transition has to be “fair and just” and cannot "decimate jobs", Scotland’s First Minister said during a leaders debate last night.
Energy transition cannot ‘come at cost’ of north-east jobs, MSPs warn
The Scottish Government's energy transition plans cannot "come at the cost" of north-east oil and gas jobs, Aberdeenshire MSPs warned yesterday.