Trade unions are keeping on the pressure to ensure \u201cJust Transition\u201d remains on the agenda for December\u2019s UN climate change summit in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n
Union representatives who will form part of the ITUC delegation at the Copenhagen meeting met this week with Michael Zammit Cutajar, who will chair the UN negotiations.<\/p>\n
The union side \u201cexpressed their satisfaction for seeing in the current negotiating text one of the most important demands for labour: the call for a \u2018Just Transition\u2019 for workers in the process to achieve a climate-friendly and climate-resilient society,\u201d reports ITUC<\/a>.<\/p>\n The union side, ITUC added, \u201calso informed the chair about other demands being delivered to governmental negotiators, such as the need for recognising the role of social protection, the vulnerability of precarious workers and public investment in the context of adaptation, and for promoting sustainable industrial policies, dialogue with social partners and skills development policies when discussing mitigation, among others.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0In a separate move, the UK government\u2019s environment secretary, Ed Miliband, acknowledged the strategic value of Just Transition\u00a0in his speech<\/a> to the annual Congress of national union federation TUC<\/a>\u00a0in September.<\/p>\n \u00a0espa\u00f1ol<\/a> * fran\u00e7ais<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trade unions are keeping on the pressure to ensure \u201cJust Transition\u201d remains on the agenda for December\u2019s UN climate change summit in Copenhagen. Union representatives who will form part of the ITUC delegation at the Copenhagen meeting met this week with Michael Zammit Cutajar, who will chair the UN negotiations. The union side \u201cexpressed their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[61,11,28,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}