Countries around the world are starting to build just transition principles into state-led green industrial strategies. Advanced economies, including the United States and the European Union’s member states, are advancing worker power in new, green industries to secure a fair transition for workers.

In this briefing, the authors explore how the United Kingdom can learn from the successes and failures of fair transition policies in the US and EU. In particular, they find there are five key principles for UK policy as part of a proactive green industrial strategy and highlight a set of five recommendations for fusing green industrial strategy with boosting worker power.