Lessons from Laustiz: What can the UK learn from Germany's just transition policies?

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Efforts to redevelop the historic coal mining region of Laustiz in Germany are the result of empowering local communities - it is imperative the UK does the same, argues IPPR's Josh Emden

Standing on the top of an exposed, brutalist concrete tower being buffeted by howling wind and sideways rain was not the experience of just transition we were expecting. Yet, just outside the German city...

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