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DESCRIPTION:The Geography and the Environment Department presents their Fal
 l Colloquium Speaker Series.“Green” Progressive Competitiveness:&nbsp\;Pro
 mises\, Contradictions\, and Alternatives for a Just TransitionA talk from
  Christian Pépin\, Postdoctoral fellow\, Industrial Relations School (Univ
 ersité de Montréal).Abstract: In recent years\, many Western governments a
 dopted “green” industrial policies to accelerate the decarbonization of ec
 onomies. Such state interventions often assume that helping businesses acq
 uire the capacities to produce “green” commodities will be rewarded by ESG
 -oriented actors willing to pay a price premium for such goods. This accum
 ulation strategy promises to rejuvenate a high-road\, export-led growth mo
 del delivering good green jobs and thus\, provide a capitalist-based pathw
 ay to a “just transition”. This presentation will analyze the economic and
  political forces threatening to undermine these socioeconomic goals while
  exploring alternative roads to a labor-centered ecological transition.Chr
 istian Pépin is a comparative political economist specialized in state eco
 nomic policies\, finance and class politics. His current research focuses 
 on the roles of industrial policies and public financial institutions unde
 r “green” capitalism\, their impacts on the future of work\, and their dem
 ocratic and emancipatory alternatives.
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SUMMARY:‘Green’ Progressive Competitiveness: Promises\, Contradictions and 
 Alternatives for a Just Transition
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<div><p>The Geography and the Environment Depa
 rtment presents their Fall Colloquium Speaker Series.</p><p>“Green” Progre
 ssive Competitiveness:&nbsp\;<span style="background-color: initial\; font
 -family: inherit\; font-size: inherit\; text-align: inherit\; text-transfo
 rm: inherit\; word-spacing: normal\; caret-color: auto\; white-space: inhe
 rit">Promises\, Contradictions\, and Alternatives for a Just Transition</s
 pan></p></div><p>A talk from Christian Pépin\, Postdoctoral fellow\, Indus
 trial Relations School (Université de Montréal).</p><p>Abstract: In recent
  years\, many Western governments adopted “green” industrial policies to a
 ccelerate the decarbonization of economies. Such state interventions often
  assume that helping businesses acquire the capacities to produce “green” 
 commodities will be rewarded by ESG-oriented actors willing to pay a price
  premium for such goods. This accumulation strategy promises to rejuvenate
  a high-road\, export-led growth model delivering good green jobs and thus
 \, provide a capitalist-based pathway to a “just transition”. This present
 ation will analyze the economic and political forces threatening to underm
 ine these socioeconomic goals while exploring alternative roads to a labor
 -centered ecological transition.</p><p><span style="background-color: rgba
 (0\, 0\, 0\, 0)\; color: inherit\; font-family: inherit\; font-size: inher
 it\; text-align: inherit\; text-transform: inherit\; word-spacing: normal\
 ; caret-color: auto\; white-space: inherit">Christian Pépin is a comparati
 ve political economist specialized in state economic policies\, finance an
 d class politics. His current research focuses on the roles of industrial 
 policies and public financial institutions under “green” capitalism\, thei
 r impacts on the future of work\, and their democratic and emancipatory al
 ternatives.</span></p>
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