This is a news item from the ILO, 15 December 2010, about the Cancun Agreement where the ILO praised the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) on climate change for including social and decent work dimensions in the outcome document.
These are some of the pictures from the Visioning Workshop on Establishing a Regional Community of Practice for Green Jobs in Asia and the Pacific.
This is where you will find the presentations from the second day of the workshop.
In this folder you find the agenda for the workshop as well as the presentations from the first day.
On December 14-15, 2010 a workshop on Establishing a Community of Practice on Green Jobs in Asia and the Pacific took place in Jakarta, Indonesia. The workshop brought together 30 experts and practitioners working on Green Jobs issues from ILO's tripartite constituents in seven countries, experts and ILO staff working on Green Jobs. The overall objectives of the event was to introduce the concept of communities of practice, to share experience from the ILO in regards to the existing communities in the region, to identify challenges and responses to Green Jobs and to do a joint work planning to determine the niche, identify products, services and topics for discussion for Green Jobs-AP and to develop a draft list of activities on three levels, short, medium and long term.
Pictures taken during the Visioning Workshop on Establishing a Regional Community of Practice for Green Jobs in Asia and the Pacific.
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Jenny Bjork
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Jul 04, 2011 04:06 PM
Author: TUC
Publishing Date:
2010
Category: Information Material
TUC - December 2010. This is the December newsletter from TUC green workplaces.
contributed by
Jenny Bjork
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Jun 17, 2011 10:55 AM
Author: ILO (Policy Integration Department)
Publishing Date:
2010
Category: Policy
ILO - 2010. The magnitude of climate change and of the ensuing changes in production systems requires us to seek solutions to meet these challenges and to guide us in making the necessary production transitions, while simultaneously guaranteeing social cohesion, participation in decision-making and best use of potential benefits in terms of job creation. In this sense, the Green Jobs Programme of the ILO, in collaboration with the Sustainlabour Foundation, the International Foundation for Sustainable Development, has conducted this case study on the Social Dialogue Tables Initiative conducted in Spain as a mechanism for trade unions and employers' organizations, together with industry, environment and labour institutions to assess the effects on the competitiveness, employment and social cohesion of the Kyoto Protocol in Spain. This is a draft report.
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Jenny Bjork
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Aug 03, 2011 10:37 AM
Author: CSR Asia in cooperation with the National Economics University in Vietnam for the Global Compact Network Vietnam
Publishing Date:
2010
Category: Research
"This review of the social and environmental conditions of industries in Vietnam was commissioned by the Global Compact Network Vietnam (GCNV) and carried out by CSR Asia in cooperation with the National Economics University in Vietnam. It aims to understand the CSR needs of different sectors. The objective was to identify the main social and environmental problems of the key industrial sectors in Vietnam and to rank these based on factors such as the size of the sector and whether or not there are existing efforts to tackle the social and environmental challenges within the sectors. "
contributed by
Jenny Bjork
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Jun 27, 2011 03:34 PM
Author: ILO, Soo Young Lee Mi Sug Jin Chang Yong Song Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training
Publishing Date:
2010
Category: Research
ILO - 2010. This report was produced in the framework of the project, ‘Skills for greenjobs’. The project was implemented in cooperation between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop). The project identifies skills needed for greener economies with respect to structural shifts, and new, emerging and changing occupational profiles. The ‘Skills for green jobs’ study is embedded in the Green Jobs Initiative, a joint initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the ILO, the International Employers Organization (IOE) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), to assess, analyze and promote the creation of decent jobs as a consequence of the needed environmental policies. The global study was jointly funded by the Skills and Employability Department of the ILO and the Green Jobs Initiative.
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Jenny Bjork
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May 26, 2011 02:28 PM
Author: IOE
Publishing Date:
2010
Category: Information Material
IOE - 2010. This paper presents employers´ views on ‘greening’ and ‘green jobs’. Such jobs should not be considered in isolation from jobs as a whole and the other dimensions of sustainable economies, development and enterprises.
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Jenny Bjork
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Feb 25, 2011 11:25 AM
Author: ILO
Publishing Date:
2010
Category: Research
These are selected presentations from a workshop in May 2010. The purpose of the technical validation workshop was to validate the findings of the global policy-applied research project on Skills for Green Jobs. The Global synthesis report and the European synthesis report were discussed. The workshop aimed to: a) identify environmental challenges and skills response strategies; b) discuss green restructuring processes on the labour market and related retraining needs; c) highlight current and future occupational changes and their implication on vocational training; d) propose specific policy recommendations and suggestions for further steps.
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g20bkkgj@ilo.org
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May 27, 2014 10:17 AM
Author:
Publishing Date:
2010
Category: Not Specified.
Provides GBO project factsheet.
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Trang Tran
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Mar 13, 2013 09:59 AM
Author: ILO, MOHRSS, Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies (IUE) Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
Publishing Date:
2010
Category: Research
The study explores the employment impacts of China’s low carbon development strategy on the forestry and
power sectors, basic industry, and the green investment component of the economic stimulus package and provides policy recommendations to bring about changes to the industrial structure and energy mix, thus impacting different sectors and employment structures within them.
contributed by
Jenny Bjork
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Jun 21, 2011 09:51 AM
Author: Loayza, Fernando, The World Bank,
Publishing Date:
2010
Category: Policy
The World Bank - 2010. "Around the world, it is increasingly being recognized that for sustainability goals to be reached, efforts need to go beyond complying with standards and mitigating adverse impacts, to identifying environmental sustainability as an objective of the development process. This approach requires the integration of environmental, sustainability, and climate change considerations into policy and sector reform. Because sector reform brings about significant policy change involving adjustments in laws, policies, regulations, and institutions, it is a sensitive political process often driven by strong economic interests. Policy makers are subject to a number of political pressures that originate in vested interests. The recommendations of environmental assessment are often of little relevance unless there are constituencies that support them and have sufficient political power to make their voices heard in the policy process. While strong constituencies are important during the design of sector reform, they are even more important during implementation. It follows that effective environmental assessment in policy and sector reform requires strong constituencies backing up recommendations, a system to hold policy makers accountable for their decisions, and institutions that can balance competing and, sometimes, conflicting interests." (ABSTRACT)