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Regional Learning and Planning Meeting
The overall goal of the team meeting is to facilitate knowledge sharing and joint programme planning and implementation for Green Jobs-AP. This is deemed ...
Carbon emissions from Indonesia’s peat fires exceed emissions from entire US economy
Mongabay, 19 Oct 2015 - Indonesia's carbon bomb goes off, with emissions from peat fires reaching their highest levels in 1997-1998. According to the Global ...
Green collar jobs – solution to youth unemployment
BusinessDay, 09 Sep 2015 - Desire for white collar (office) jobs and unwillingness to look elsewhere has left many young energetic well-educated Nigerians ...
Green jobs in a low carbon economy
16 May 2013 - The rising unemployment rate....can be mitigated by generating green jobs from the transition to a low carbon economy, to an economy that ...
The Little Green Data Book 2013
The Little Green Data Book is a pocket-sized ready reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries. Key indicators are organized under the headings ...
Implementing Inclusive, Green Economy Approaches: Asia Regional Dialogue
A two-day Asia Regional Dialogue was held in Bangkok, Thailand from 27-28 September 2012 on inclusive green economy approaches. The Dialogue provided a forum ...
ILO ROAP at the Asia Pacific Climate Week & the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2021
The week of 6-13 July the ILO participated in six sessions at the Asia-Pacific Climate Week and the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. ...
Role of Bank Indonesia to support GREEN INVESTMENT
Role of Bank Indonesia to support GREEN INVESTMENT
Indonesia pushes for more in green list
Local stakeholders, including the business community, have voiced support for the government’s efforts to have agriculture-based products, such as palm oil and ...
A new business model for palm oil?
Eco-Business, 17 Oct 2015 - The recent haze in Southeast Asia has sparked renewed calls for alternatives to palm oil products. In this interview, Forum for the ...
New UN guidelines seek to make genetic diversity part of climate change adaptation
Eco-buisness, 27 Nov 2015 - The Food and Agricultural Organization has issued new voluntary guidelines to assist countries in better managing and sustainably ...
Overfishing drives Thai boats to use more slave labour, sail further
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 02 Mar 2015 - Decades of overfishing and the international demand for cheap seafood mean Thai boats are increasingly turning to ...
Growing Demand for Medicinal Plants Can Create Green Jobs for Nepal's Poor
The report, BioTrade: Harnessing the potential for transitioning to a green economy - The Case of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Nepal, analyzes the ...
Philippines: A Nation Mobilizes to Adapt to Climate Change
An article from the "Synthesis of 2011/2012 Resident Coordinator Annual Report – The impact of UN Coordination: Stories from the field" published by the United ...
How does big data help sustainability campaigns?
Eco-Business, 07 Aug 2015 - Whether it is reducing food waste, increasing recycling, or promoting energy efficiency, the ability to collect and analyse big ...
Estimating Green Jobs in Bangladesh
Report of a study assessing the scale and distribution of green employment in Bangladesh, within the UNEP/ILO joint 'Green Jobs Initiative'.
PAGE RECEIVES 9 ADDITIONAL COUNTRY PROPOSALS FOR GREEN RECOVERY SUPPORT
Following the successful selection of five countries to receive targeted green recovery funds in November, PAGE has received additional applications from 9 ...
Food and Agriculture: The future of sustainability
The report focuses on vital areas of risk and offers a collection of up-to-date information on the current and likely trends for our global food and ...
To build a greener economy, Bhutan wants to go organic by 2020
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 05 Oct 2015 - Farmer Phub Zam, 55, is in a hurry. Monsoon rains have hit her farm in Bhutan’s Paro valley and Zam is rushing to ...
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2014
The United Nations World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) is hosted and led by UNESCO and brings together the work of 31 UN-Water Members as well as 34 ...
Indonesian Green entrepreneurship Forum
The Green Entrepreneurship Forum will be organized on 8 May 2013 in Jakarta to promote and advocate green entrepreneurship to relevant stakeholders in ...
Preparing for and transferring risks, adapting to climate change
In the Southern Philippines, farmers' lives and the weather are intimately interwoven, but something is changing, now that the rains in Agusan del Norte are ...
PAGE China News for the Green Jobs Working Group September 2021
The latest news from PAGE China, covering; events, learning and sharing opportunities, what we're reading, and UN news.
Innovation Drivers in the Garment Sector in Asia – Webinar on 24 November, 2020
The ILO held a webinar to highlight the early stages of research that two PhD students have been working on related to innovation drivers for environmental ...
Talking Point: Jobs growing in hi-tech farm sector
The Mercury, 30 Sep 2015 - IN less than two weeks, about 70,000 Australian teenagers will sit down to complete papers in the Tasmanian Certificate of ...
Latest news from the ILO in Asia and the Pacific
Global Call to Action for a human-centred COVID-19 recovery, Key points from Asia-Pacific Climate Week & the High Level Political Forum 2021, ILO estimates ...
GREEN ECONOMY : Developing Countries Success Stories
The economic analysis in the Green Economy Report builds in part on the encouraging signs and results of many initiatives around the world. A number of these ...
Green Economy Scoping Study: Modelling Report of South Africa (SAGEM) - Focus on Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Transport and Energy Sectors
This study assesses potential opportunities and options to promote a green economy in South Africa, with a focus on key economic sectors. The evaluation was ...
Report of the Special session on "Sustaining the future with Green jobs" (ILO, 2011)
The report of the side event on Green jobs at the ILO 15th Asia Pacific Regional Meeting (APRM) held from 4 to 7 December 2011 in Kyoto, Japan.
Green Jobs Paper in the South Pacific - A Preliminary Study
The purpose of this report is to assess the challenges and opportunities that are associated with the expansion of specific economic sub-sectors, which are ...