Spours, K; (2021) Accelerate the Just Transition: the contribution of further and higher education to achieve net zero and climate justice. Presented at: Race to Net Zero: COP26 symposium, City of Glasgow College and UCL, Glasgow, UK.

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Thus far COP26 has ‘codified the emergency’ but actions have been underwhelming. In response, the scale and urgency of the crisis requires that the Just Transition (combined Green and Social transitioning) be accelerated (conceived in this symposium as the ‘race to net zero’). This will not be achieved by new national and global policies alone (important though they are), but by synergistic actions between different societal levels from bottom to top and from local to global. The presentation and paper take a ‘whole system approach’ by exploring the different elements of the Just Transition and building a multi-dimensional ‘Just Transition Social Ecosystem’ model. This conceptual framework is applied to further and higher education in which FHE institutions are seen as key Just Transition actors with fundamental educative and linking roles – local, national and global - to support the acceleration of ecological and societal transitioning. It is also argued that in order to become influential JT connective forces, FHE organisations will first have to reimagine themselves as place-based civic institutions and an active part of a connective global world.

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