A Beginner’s Guide to a Just Transition

It was 9 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in June of 2020. In the peak of the pandemic quarantine, I had signed up for yet another virtual webinar. With coffee mug in hand, I settled into the couch and logged onto Zoom. For the next hour, I was captured by the words of Elizabeth Yeampierre. In her talk, Ms. Yeampierre drew a connection between economic, environmental, and climate justice, and she explained how a “just transition” is needed to address this interconnected web of inequities.