Just distribution in and post sustainability transition

Abstract In discussions of climate and sustainability transitions, justice has come to play a prominent role—specifically, justice in how a transition treats the people affected by it. This Perspective article asks how justice claims in such transitions can be more clearly distinguished and integrated. It introduces two distinctions: a temporal distinction between transitional distribution and post-transition distribution, and a scope distinction between transition-bound and structural-scope approaches. The article also discusses the procedural justice questions of how and by whom substantive transition decisions should be made.