Biblioteca

This is a slide presentation held by Dr. Peter Pembleton, UNIDO at the April 2002 UNDP Roundtable on CDM in Amsterdam. It presents UNIDO’s approach to CDM capacity building.

This slide presentation introduces the Magnum photo essay. The images show that climate change is affecting rainfall, temperatures and water availability for agriculture in vulnerable areas. The danger is that extreme food insecurity episodes will become more common. Major killer diseases could expand their coverage. Rich countries are already preparing public health to deal with future climate shocks. For poor countries it is much harder: they need international support to adapt. 

In this video Stephen Pursey, ILO’s Director of Policy Integration and Statistics discusses the new report «Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World».

In this video ILO Director-General Juan Somavia and UNEP Director Achim Steiner lead a discussion about the effects of climate change on the nexus between economic growth and environmental sustainability and debate about the fact that the only choice will be to see how they can reinforce each other in the years to come.

This video shows delegates attending a high-level panel hosted by the Government of Denmark and the ILO discussing the links between climate change, the world of work and the new global climate agreement to be reached in Copenhagen in December 2009. Panelists included Inger Støjberg, Minister of Employment of Denmark, Tariq Banuri, director UN-DESA, Prof. James Heintz, University of Massachusetts, United States, Tatiana Tobias, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Brazil, Ronnie Goldberg, vice-chair International Organisation of Employers (IOE), Alison Tate, International Centre for Trade Union Rights, Australia.

This video shows how garbage can profit the environment. Burkina Faso’s first plastic recycling centre is paving the way for a new kind of development project. It provides a money earner to the poor while tackling environmental pollution. Local industry also benefits – the recycled plastic granules cost half the price of importing new plastic from abroad.

This slide presentation shows how cooperatives can contribute to meeting global challenges. Ranging from small-scale to multi-million dollar businesses, cooperatives today employ some 100 million women and men in both industrialized and developing countries, and have more than 800 million individual members across the globe. ‘Concern for Community’ is one of the Cooperative Principles which guides the work of cooperatives around the world. Celebrated annually on the first Saturday of July, the 14th UN International Day of Cooperatives focuses this year on the significant contribution that cooperatives can make to mitigating climate change.

This analytical report by Cain Polidano states that commitments of developed countries to curb greenhouse gas emssions under the UNFCCC lead to falls in coal production and hence to significant falls in coalmining employment. It predicts that global coal employment could fall by 53 per cent under the most stringent emission reduction scenario.

This brochure presents the why, what and how of ILO’s Green Jobs Programme: Why the transformation to a sustainable, low carbon economy is crucial for environmental and social reasons. What this transformation means for enterprises and labour markets. What the ILO means by green jobs. How green jobs and the greening of enterprises contribute to meeting pressing social and environmental challenges and how the ILO is setting up and implementing its global programme through partnerships. The brochure also includes contacts and links to key resources for further information.

This issue of the ILO’s magazine World of Work focuses on how climate change is affecting workplaces around the world and also looks at the new employment opportunities created by the global, national and grassroots initiatives promoting sustainable development and green jobs.

This article looks at how the ILO can strengthen its capacity to address the issue of climate change and assist its constituents with the transition processes in relation to changes in jobs and qualifications. It was published  in a special issue on Green Jobs of the ILO’s magazine «World of Work» (No. 60, August 2007).

This document presents a study entitled «Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World» launched globally by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the International Organisation of Employers (IOE). The report is the first comprehensive study on the emergence of a green economy and its impact on the world of work. It includes new data that show a changing pattern of employment in which green jobs are being generated in many sectors and economies around the world as a result of measures to tackle climate change and to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

This document presents a statement of ILO Director-General, Juan Somavia. ILO Director-General presents jointly with UNEP Executive Director, Achim Steiner, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) General Secretary, Guy Ryder, and the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) Vice President, Ronnie Goldberg, the report entitled «Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World» highlighting its main points.

This manual collects adapted training material originally developed for Zambia and Tanzania on waste management, to suit the Zimbabwean context, with a focus on waste recycling as a business idea for community based organisations. This also contributes to solve solid waste management problems at the local level. The adapted training package Start Your Waste Recycling Business comprises four key documents.

This document presents a policy-applied research on skill needs for greener economies conducted by the ILO. The research is based on fifteen country studies worldwide with a primary focus on good practice examples of how national policies for greening economies are complemented by identification of skills needs and efficient skills response strategies. The ILO is partnering with the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) who is conducting six additional country studies in Europe.

This slide presentation introduces a programme to prevent natural disasters in the Gonaïves Region (Haiti). Environmental protection and employment creation are essential elements of this strategy, whose specific objectives are: to contribute to setting up a management plan of the “Quinte Quinte River River” catchment area and its affluents to avoid future natural disasters similar to the “Jeanne hurricane”; to rehabilitate the extremely fragile and weakened environment of Gona Gonaïves by implementing water and soil conservation schemes using labour-based techniques.

This document presents a message from Juan Somavia, Director-General of the ILO, written on the occasion of the World Environment Day. It stresses that tackling climate change and protecting the environment are workplace issues. Meeting the enormous challenge of arresting climate change, the loss of biodiversity and pollution and of supporting sustainable agriculture capable of providing food for all requires major changes in production and consumption patterns.

This document highlights that early global efforts to avert dangerous climate change are already generating new jobs, and could produce millions of new employment opportunities. This is the result of a new study to be launched globally by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the International Organisation of Employers (IOE).

This document introduces a new landmark study on the impact of an emerging global “green economy” on the world of work. It stresses that efforts to tackle climate change could result in the creation of millions of new “green jobs” in the coming decades.

This slide presentation discusses how ICT can help to shift from a high to a low carbon global economy and promote green and decent work in a sustainable, low-carbon world. High potential exists in specific sectors: energy efficiency: buildings; industry, transport; renewable energy; mobility and mass transportation; recycling, waste management; sustainable agriculture and forestry; environmental services.