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Green Jobs for Green Growth International Conference on Green Industry in Asia

Green Jobs for Green Growth International Conference on Green Industry in Asia Manila, 9-11 September 2009 Vincent Jugault Senior Environment & Decent Work Specialist ILO ROAP-Bangkok.

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Green Jobs for Green Growth International Conference on Green Industry in Asia

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  1. Green Jobs for Green Growth International Conference on Green Industry in Asia Manila, 9-11 September 2009 Vincent Jugault Senior Environment & Decent Work Specialist ILO ROAP-Bangkok Decent Work for All ASIAN DECENT WORK DECADE 2006-2015

  2. The decent work challenge • Unemployed: 190 m globally • 1 billion excluded from socio-economic development • to create 500 m new jobs for young job seekers in the next ten years • 5.3 billion with no social security • 1.6 billion without access to energy • 9 billion people in 2050 • The climate mitigation challenge • How to achieve globally, under these conditions by 2050: • 550 ppm CO2 eq, or 450, or 350 ? • efficiency improvement by a factor 5, or more? • 70 % reduction of GHGs emissions?

  3. Green Jobs can be generically defined as the direct employment created in economic sectors and activities, which reduces their environmental impact and ultimately brings it down to levels that are sustainable. This includes jobs that help to reduce the consumption of energy and raw materials, decarbonizes the economy, protect and restore ecosystems and biodiversity and minimize the production of waste and pollution. ILO/UNEP Green Jobs = Environmentally sustainable + Decent Combined enforcement of labor and environmental standards

  4. High potential sectors • • Energy efficiency: buildings, • • Renewable energy • • Mobility: mass transportation • • Recycling, waste management • • Sustainable environment based economic sectors (forestry, agriculture, fisheries, etc) • • Environmental services (eco-industry) • Environmental quality based sectors (eco-tourism) • Greening the industry: greener jobs

  5. Ship-breaking Over 100,000 workers in Asia, almost all untrained and unprotected in an environmentally damaging and hazardous industry. Recycling Millions of workers in Asia involved in hazardous waste recycling (e-waste, lead and other heavy metals, etc.) in the informal sector.

  6. Unsustainable jobs will be lost through economic restructuring Compensated by high employment growth rates in green sectors in an increasing number of countries

  7. With considerable spillovers from direct green job creation

  8. In magnitude, it is the greening of existing jobs and processes that matters most • Labour productivity has • increased by more than 270 • % over the past four • Decades • • In the same period, the • productivity of raw materials • and energy increased by • much less, 100 % and 20 % • respectively

  9. Economic and labor market impacts: on balance Net gain in jobs from active climate and environmental policies Large potential in developing countries and emerging economies Only decent + environmentally sustainable (green jobs) help to meet the dual challenge

  10. The social dimension in the climate debate • A missing link ? • negotiation process • consultation process • policy formulation • implementation on the ground

  11. The involvement of the social partners • Why it is going to be different this time • The three phases of the environmental movement • The conservation phase • Conservation laws of F.D Roosevelt in the 30’ • IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), October 1948, • The regulatory phase on pollution prevention & control in the 60’ and 70’ • The Climate change and climate variability phase - TODAY • it is about energy security (mitigation) • adapting to climate change • affecting ALL sectors of the economy • central to socio-economic development

  12. • The Green Jobs Initiativeis a partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the International Organization of Employers (IOE). • The initiative was launched in to mobilize governments, employers and workers to engage in dialogue on coherent policies and effective programmes leading to a green economy with green jobs and decent work for all.

  13. Some points of intervention for a Green Jobs Initiative 1. Turn the challenge posed by Climate Change into opportunities for jobs and livelihood 2. Introduce ‘social clauses’ into the next protocol on Climate change and help recognize the key role of the world of work 3. Promote a ‘just transition’ to sustainability 4. Develop adequate social tools for most exposed populations to climate variability 5. Gender unbalance: the double deficit 6. The migration effect due to climate change and climate variability

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