This book is about our role, our relationship, and our roadmap for the future. Our role as parliamentarians is now more than important than ever; as truth-tellers, explainers-in-chief, advocates, speaking up for those who have lost everything. Demanding ministers do the right thing. Insisting that governments work together for the common good, safe in the knowledge that pandemics, like poverty, do not stop at passport control.

This has implications for the relationship between us; as representatives determined to learn from each other to share with each other, ideas
and insights, analysis and arguments. This mission is at the core of ‘Just Transitions: A Roadmap to the Century Ahead’ the Network’s work.

This book, however, is designed to provoke thoughts about the roadmap ahead. And make no mistake, the road ahead is hard.