{"id":346,"date":"2009-10-16T16:33:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T15:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2009-11-25T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T13:08:09","slug":"europe-jobs-are-a-climate-change-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/2009\/10\/16\/europe-jobs-are-a-climate-change-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs are a climate change issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union is to support Just Transition, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>A 15 October Brussels coordinating conference of unions working on environmental issues heard an EU spokesperson reiterate that Europe is 100 per cent behind the inclusion of a Just Transition clause in the agreement to be sought at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen this December.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s evident the\u00a0issue is not at the top of the EU\u2019s wishlist, however. The UK <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchstoneblog.org.uk\/2009\/10\/blog-action-day-unions-talk-climate-with-the-eu\/\">TUC\u2019s Touchstone blog<\/a> reports an EU official addressing the union meeting \u201cseemed at first to be unaware\u201d of Just Transition. The bureaucracy, apparently, is preoccupied with the targets for carbon dioxide reduction.<\/p>\n<p>Policy makers can\u2019t just gloss over the jobs issue if they really want to secure this reduction from those industries that are heavy consumers of energy and among those producing most of\u00a0 the\u00a0troubling gases. Unemployment is a political issue; that makes it a climate change issue too.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nUnions have ensured the Just Transition language appears in the text of draft agreement and have secured support from a wide range of environmental groups. It will take ongoing pressure to ensure it survives the discussions, however.<\/p>\n<p>The TUC blog points out that in implementing measures for carbon dioxide reduction \u201cour plans for a Just Transition, with the emphasis on consultation, investment in green jobs and low carbon technology, and building green skills, will be even more necessary to secure the road from Copenhagen to the transformed world we\u2019ll live and work in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union is to support Just Transition, it seems. A 15 October Brussels coordinating conference of unions working on environmental issues heard an EU spokesperson reiterate that Europe is 100 per cent behind the inclusion of a Just Transition clause in the agreement to be sought at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[71,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}