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Description
Just Green is an EC funded project designed to strengthen citizen engagement in the green transition across the Visegrád Four countries: Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland.
The project addresses a critical risk facing EU climate policy: decarbonisation measures that affect housing, transport, and labour markets may be perceived as externally imposed, socially unfair, or economically burdensome.
Such perceptions can weaken public support and undermine long-term climate objectives.
The core goal of JustGreen is to ensure that the transition toward climate neutrality is socially just, democratically grounded, and responsive to citizens’ lived experiences. The consortium, composed of leading policy and research organisations from all four countries, combines civic participation with applied research to capture how individuals understand, experience, and evaluate decarbonisation policies in everyday life.
Through public debates, focus groups, surveys, and expert consultations, the project identifies structural, financial, and informational barriers that hinder behavioural change. Particular attention is paid to energy poverty, transport accessibility, labour market adaptation, and the effectiveness of subsidy schemes.
Key outputs include national policy analyses, comparative regional reports, citizen testimony collections, public discussion summaries, and recommendations for policymakers at local, national, and EU levels.
By translating citizen insights into actionable policy feedback, JustGreen strengthens trust, and promotes a fair and inclusive pathway toward Europe’s green transformation.
