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Uneven Transitions: Exploring Perceptions of the Operationalisation of a Just Transition

  • Uneven Transitions: Exploring Perceptions of the Operationalisation of a Just Transition

  • Friday 13 March 2026

  • 11.00am - 12.00pm

  • Online

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Hosted by Dr Clair Cooper, this event will explore the explores how industry and community stakeholders perceive and experience the operationalisation of a just transition within the context of decarbonisation, with a particular focus on the Tees Valley region.

Clair will highlight the importance of fairness, capability, and inclusion in shaping low?carbon futures, and identify both enabling conditions and structural barriers that affect local people’s ability to participate in emerging hydrogen and clean?energy economies. The findings emphasise that achieving a just transition requires coordinated action from industry, policymakers, and educators to build skills, strengthen trust, support communities, and ensure benefits are shared equitably.

About the speaker:
Dr?Clair Cooper is a Research Fellow with the Research England Hydrogen Innovation Project, specialising in just transitions. Her work explores how different stakeholders, industries, and communities understand what a just transition to net zero looks like in practice, and how these perceptions shape wider societal attitudes towards decarbonisation. Clair’s research focuses on issues of fairness, capability, inclusion, and the lived experience of transition, providing insights that help policymakers, industry, and communities co?design more equitable pathways to a low?carbon future.

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