The Just Transition: Making it Work

<p>This week’s episode comes from Octopus Energy HQ, where <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-rennison-409680106/"><u>Amy Rennison</u></a> hosts a live Earth Set conversation on one of the most contested — and least clearly defined — ideas in the transition: the “just transition”.</p><p>She’s joined by three perspectives spanning community, policy and capital. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-powell-99b36548/"><u>David Powell</u></a> from the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/local-storytelling-exchange/"><u>Local Storytelling Exchange</u></a> brings a grounded view from communities across the UK, exploring how people actually experience change — often in ways that never show up in policy. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-millman-67aa7b130/"><u>Grace Millman</u></a>, working on just transitions and community energy at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/regen-sw/"><u>Regen</u></a>, looks at how fairness, participation and regional inequality shape the way net zero lands in real places. And <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-fletcher/"><u>Jordan Fletcher</u></a>, investor at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-impact-ventures/"><u>Future Impact Ventures,</u></a> shares how capital can be deployed not just to decarbonise, but to create broader social and economic value from the start.</p><p>The conversation moves beyond theory into the lived reality of the transition: rising energy bills, contested infrastructure, uneven access to new technologies, and the growing sense among many communities that change is happening to them, not with them.</p><p>Together, they unpack a central tension: the need to move fast — and the risk that moving fast without fairness ultimately slows everything down.</p><p>If the transition is as much about trust, perception and lived experience as it is about technology, the question becomes this: how do we design a system that people actually feel is working for them?</p><p><strong>In this episode you’ll learn:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Why the “just transition” means different things to different people — and why that ambiguity matters</p></li><li><p>How feelings of fairness, pride and dignity shape public support for climate action</p></li><li><p>Why most people don’t talk about “climate” — but do care about their homes, bills and communities</p></li><li><p>How storytelling reveals the gap between policy design and lived experience</p></li><li><p>The role of trust — and why