New legal dimensions linked to the fair ecological transition: environmental labour law

Abstract

Global warming has made environmental preservation a political priority. Since transversality is the problem, the measures to make it effective have been projected in all vital areas. The law has instrumentalized these measures, creating rich environmental regulations, although for years there have been relevant references, not always adequately valued and/or that have been revalued in response to the climate emergency. The socio-labor field, as one of the essential aspects of action to achieve the just ecological transition, has developed a good number of provisions that share the two dimensions, configuring a branch that can be called “socio-labor environmental law.” This work examines the basic regulatory pillars of the just ecological transition, in its multilevel configuration, as well as some references of the growing “environmental right of work.”