14/10/2009

Cutting Emissions, Transforming Jobs

IMF-ICEM-EMF-EMCEF Meeting on Climate Change
Bad Orb, Germany, 14-15 October 2009

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) will be held on 7-18 December 2009 in Copenhagen. The international trade union movement wants to play a role in this process to support a binding international agreement that will provide a framework for combating global warming, while at the same time safeguarding employment and workers’ rights.

In order to discuss and put forward a common industrial workers’ position, the IMF, ICEM, EMF and EMCEF are organising a meeting on climate change on 14-15 October 2009

For more information please contact Judith Kirton-Darling, EMF Policy Adviser

Agenda

21/10/2009

Cut emissions and transform jobs

EMF & EMCEF report from the conference in Bad Orb.

The transition to a low-carbon economy must guarantee employment and result in the development of new, decent jobs, say participants at global industrial unions’ meeting on climate change.

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.