05/10/2009

ETUC Conference on Climate Change, New Industrial Policies and Exiting the Crisis

ETUC in partnership with EMF and EMCEF.

London, 5 and 6 October 2009

The acceleration of climate change, together with food and water poverty and the rising cost of energy, will provoke cross-border conflict and mass migration. Europe must therefore place its economic recovery plans within the framework of developing an industrial policy centred on the development of clean technologies in order to convert our society to a low carbon economy.

More about the conference.

Programme

COP 15 - European metalworkers on the road from Copenhagen

For the European Metalworkers Federation climate change is a dangerous reality which demands a social response at international as well as European, national and regional/local and company levels. We believe that a drive towards new industrial strategies based on low carbon technologies and products can offer opportunities but also challenges for the future of industrial workplaces in Europe.

EFFAT's view on sustainable development

Sustainable development seeks to "meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” in the sense of balance between economic, social and environmental elements. Still, increasingly rapid global changes, from the melting of the icecaps to growing energy and resource demand, are challenging this objective.