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In this document ILO Director-General Juan Somavia highlightes the potential for the creation of environmentally friendly green jobs in a panel discussion and press conference at the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum organized by the United Nations Environment Programme in Monaco.

This policy document discusses evidence and findings presented in the report “Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World”. It focuses on the notion of “green jobs”, a concept that has become something of an emblem of a more sustainable economy and society, to preserve the environment for both present and future generations and to be more equitable and inclusive of all people and all countries. Green jobs hold the promise that humankind will be able to face up to the following two defining challenges of the twenty‑first century: climate change and decent work. 

This publication discusses climate change and its social and labour impacts.The world of work is sensitive to changes in the environment. As climate change sweeps across the globe, governments, workers and employers are facing its incremental effects as well as searching for solutions to offset them. This document 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 document shows data and information about the development of green jobs. Green Jobs have become an emblem of a more sustainable economy and society, that preserves the environment for present and future generations and is more equitable and inclusive of all people and all countries. The rationale for green growth and clean development has mostly been presented as a win-win situation for the environment and for economic development.

This analytical report presents a project designed to promote green jobs in Burkina Faso. In fact, the ILO’s new “Green Jobs Initiative” aims to develop and create jobs in order to promote a cleaner, more sustainable environment. Though the concept is relatively new, the practice is already growing in some parts of the world. The report from the Burkina Faso experience shows that a new project for removing plastic waste is not only improving the environment, but creating “green jobs” in the process.

This document analyses the employment and labour market implications of climate change by determining the link between economic growth, poverty reduction and sustainable development. Also available in German.

This document analyses how green jobs can be promoted in a socially equitable way. After discussing climate change, it examines the linkage between climatic hazards and decent work. It concludes with propositions and suggestions for the ILO and with guidelines for a possible ILO working program on this issue.

The analytical report has been compiled from an extensive desk review, findings from participation in international conferences and relevant forums, a number of interviews conducted through a focused questionnaire, and five field visits to develop detailed case studies and verify issues raised in project documents with evidence from the field. It is hoped that the findings will help build in-house capacity to promote adaptation and mitigation. The lessons learned will contribute to enhancing integration of climate related issues both at strategic and project levels.

This analytical report discusses about expanding the concept of carbon trading to include compensation for the rural poor for their contributions to soil conservation and avoided deforestation.

This fact sheet covers IFAD’s mission concerning climate change: to enable poor rural people to overcome poverty. Agriculture is the main source of livelihood for most poor rural people, and it is also the human activity most directly affected by climate change.

This policy document was prepared for the Round Table on Climate Change at the thirty-first session of IFAD’s Governing Council. It presents a discussion on the impact of climate change on agriculture and smallholders farmers. Among the many mitigation measures currently under development, some could provide new opportunities to hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers, pastoralists and forest dwellers, through their roles as sequesters of carbon, through the changes they can make in their land use and cultivation practices to reduce GHG emissions, and as small scale producers of clean energy.

This policy document presents IFAD approach to climate change, rooted in the IFAD Strategic Framework 2007-2010. Climate change hazards affect poor rural people in developing countries and efforts have to be promoted to strengthen their long-term resilience to climate change. While an increasing number of IFAD-supported projects address climate change adaptation issues, the challenge is to ensure that all IFAD activities at the country level are consistently built on an understanding of the potential effects of climate change and that they take these effects into account as necessary.

This slide presentation provides an overview of IFAD’s experiences,  lessons learned and evolving approach to climate change. IFAD will implement the following four key actions in order to improve its strategy: take all possible measures to climate-proof IFAD operations; develop climate change strategy to ensure common understanding of potential effects of climate change; use core funding, plus new sources of funding and scale up engagement in climate change issues; work with partners to (a) support development of post-Kyoto regime that responds to needs of poor rural communities, and (b) work with them to benefit from the new regime once in place.

This technical document discusses  the potential role of agricultural research in improving small farmers’ productivity and ability to adapt to and mitigate climate change. It also analyses how to increase investments in international research and sharpen its focus on the challenges faced by regions that are most vulnerable to climate change.

This document discusses the issue of climate change impact on agriculture. It highlights that the future of global food security is highly dependent on two important and inter-related factors. The first is the degree to which developing countries will succeed in raising agricultural productivity through technological change and effective natural resource management. The second is the degree to which the world will succeed in limiting climate change, while helping developing countries adapt to climate change and mitigate its effects.

This document shows that there are many ways in which IFAD could strengthen its engagement in climate change adaptation. Active participation in the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP) on impacts, vulnerability and assessment is one of them. While IFAD’s Global Environment and Climate Change (GECC) Unit is the institutional focal point for the programme, adaptation-related work is taking place throughout the organization.

This slide presentation discusses the linkage between rural development and climate change. It presents the issue and some relevant questions such as: how should current approaches change because of climate change? Is it possible to generalize over what the rural poor would ask for from global climate negotiations and what would this be?

This video shows a BBC interview with IFAD’s President on the link between climate change and agriculture in Africa.

This video looks at the Pacific islands of Kiribati that were among the last places to be colonized by humans. Today, because of rising sea levels, they may be among the first to be abandoned. Should Kiribati President Anote Tong surrender to climate change and evacuate?

This document presents an interview with IFAD President, Mr. Kanayo F. Nwaze, published by IDN-InDepthNews. Mr. Nwaze stresses the necessity of investments in the agricultural sector. In fact, this is fundamental to deal with two actual global challenges: food security and environment conservation, while generating wealth and propelling the economy.