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Tweet[IWS] ITUC: CLIMATE JUSTICE: THERE ARE NO JOBS ON A DEAD PLANET [19 March 2015]
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School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
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International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
FRONTLINES Briefing, MARCH 2015
CLIMATE JUSTICE: THERE ARE NO JOBS ON A DEAD PLANET [19 March 2015]
http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/ituc_frontlines_climate_change_report_en.pdf
[full-text, 24 pages]
see additional ITUC Reports at http://www.ituc-csi.org/reports,264
[excerpt]
Climate action is a trade union issue. We have a vital role to
play to protect jobs in existing workplaces and industries by
demanding industrial transformation, to organise new quality
jobs in the emerging green economy and to fight for the Just
Transition measures that ensure we leave no one behind.
CONTENTS
Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 4
The science is in..................................................................................................................... 7
The road to Paris .................................................................................................................. 10
Leave no one behind in a zero carbon future ....................................................................... 13
Just Transition and Decent Work in UNFCCC negotiations.................................................... 16
Unions for climate action...................................................................................................... 19
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