A Just Transition to a Carbon-neutral Society in Response to the Climate Crisis: Focusing on Workers in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

This study aims to find out the need for extensive transition education led by private, public, and academic institutions to realize social dialogue in response to the climate crisis in the era of the 4th industrial revolution and carbon neutrality the climate crisis. This requires the establishment of governance that will enable a just transition to carbon neutrality, and the education and promotion of carbon neutral green growth that citizens, including workers, can understand and practice. Responding to the climate crisis has become an important trend for human survival, and the transition to energy-low-consumption industries and low-carbon economies to respond to climate change is becoming an important variable in industry and labor. In the process of reforming the structure of the power and energy industry for the transition to a carbon-neutral society, the participation of stakeholders, including labor, is urgently needed. Conversion governance should be studied in various aspects, including social dialogue, industry-level collective bargaining, and corporate-level joint decisions, but this study proposes a just transition to a carbon-neutral society centered on social dialogue.