The UN Secretary General has called a special summit this year which
will be held around the General Assembly. The aim is to encourage action
and mobilize political will from government leaders and other civil
society actors and thus achieve an international agreement on emissions
that limits temperature increases to less than two degrees.
This is precisely what the ITUC is doing through its campaign Unions4climate which was launched at the ITUC congress in Berlin on May 21st, 2014. 1,500 delegates from 161 countries attended the conference and who represented over 175 million workers worldwide. All affiliated unions were asked to redouble pressure on governments to increase ambition and get a binding and ambitious agreement at the 2015 Paris conference.
Some trade unions - more than 50 to be precise - pledged commitments.. Sustainlabour has reviewed and compiled some of these commitments in a recent report for UNEP.
Four case studies have been carried out (covering the UK, Spain, Germany and Belgium) which include trade union demands, the current national emission reduction context , economic prospects, job creation possibilities and sector-specific measures needed to achieve these objectives.
These four commitments from the Unions4Climate Campaign highlight possibilities for developed countries to be more ambitious on emissions reductions. The demands to go further come from trade unions which often represent workers from the most polluting sectors. Additionally, austerity policies may be negatively impacting on employment. Trade union commitments can be effective as their proposals combine needs with approaches: on the one hand they aim to reduce emissions and to reduce unemployment and on the other they include specific measures at the workplace.
Advice from sustain labour http://www.sustainlabour.org/noticia.php?lang=EN&idnoticia=787
This is precisely what the ITUC is doing through its campaign Unions4climate which was launched at the ITUC congress in Berlin on May 21st, 2014. 1,500 delegates from 161 countries attended the conference and who represented over 175 million workers worldwide. All affiliated unions were asked to redouble pressure on governments to increase ambition and get a binding and ambitious agreement at the 2015 Paris conference.
Some trade unions - more than 50 to be precise - pledged commitments.. Sustainlabour has reviewed and compiled some of these commitments in a recent report for UNEP.
Four case studies have been carried out (covering the UK, Spain, Germany and Belgium) which include trade union demands, the current national emission reduction context , economic prospects, job creation possibilities and sector-specific measures needed to achieve these objectives.
These four commitments from the Unions4Climate Campaign highlight possibilities for developed countries to be more ambitious on emissions reductions. The demands to go further come from trade unions which often represent workers from the most polluting sectors. Additionally, austerity policies may be negatively impacting on employment. Trade union commitments can be effective as their proposals combine needs with approaches: on the one hand they aim to reduce emissions and to reduce unemployment and on the other they include specific measures at the workplace.
Advice from sustain labour http://www.sustainlabour.org/noticia.php?lang=EN&idnoticia=787
