Greta: Ground-breaking Research on Employment and Environmental Transitions Ahead

While climate change is posing unprecedented challenges to existing socioeconomic models in Europe and beyond, the crisis of welfare systems based on growth, consumption and redistribution involves an in-depth rethinking of the role of labour law and industrial relations in current and future societies. In contrast to silos approaches that characterized the 20th century industrial era, contemporary societal problems impose shifting the policy focus from a linear to a systemic type of intervention in which labour and environmental values are pursued simultaneously. 

This Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship will contribute to this goal by investigating the implications of labour law with a critical societal problem: the global environmental crisis. By combining a variety of legal approaches and methods, the project will contribute to advance and integrate the existing frontier research on labour and environmental sustainability, as well as to breach silos approaches to sustainable development and the correlated Just Transition policies.

Paolo TOMASSETTI, the project principal investigator, will carry out his fellowship at the Centre de droit social of Aix-Marseille University, under the supervision of professor Alexis BUGADA

Project objectives

Methodology