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The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) activities within PAGE focus on green jobs and ensuring a just transition as countries commit to greening their economies. Through its mandate – working with representatives of governments, workers, and employers’ organisations – the ILO brings to PAGE the necessary expertise needed to understand the details and dynamics of green economic transitions.
Here we bring together three key pieces centered around PAGE-ILO’s efforts towards just transitions and green jobs.
As of 2023 and a decade of action on green economy, PAGE has supported over 100 policies to curb environmental and social challenges in partnering countries. PAGE’s in collaboration with ILO just released a mapping piece on just transition.
The report aims to capture key interventions, lessons learnt, different experiences, and insights undertaken by PAGE-ILO to advance a just transition across various countries. It provides an overview of these initiatives and their progress. It includes information on national frameworks with policy and sectoral interventions implemented in PAGE member countries.
The mapping piece serves as a valuable resource with collected good practices and a way forward for policymakers, stakeholders, and researchers interested in understanding the role of PAGE and the ILO in promoting a just transition and creating green job opportunities.
PAGE works in the Asia-Pacific to promote green jobs and a just transition which is important for achieving sustainable development in the region.
In an interview to PAGE, Eric Roeder, ILO expert on green jobs and just transition in the Asia Pacific region, delves deeper into the challenges and opportunities associated with a just transition in the Asia-Pacific region.
Eric Roeder highlights some key findings, including that achieving social equity in the transition is crucial but challenging, requiring targeted policies and efforts to address social inequalities and discrimination, and that the region has significant potential for renewable energy generation, sustainable practices in agriculture and forestry, and a circular economy.
The director of the ILO Priority Action Programme on Just Transitions Towards Environmentally Sustainable Economies and Societies, Moustapha Kamal Gueye, raised the urgency to advance climate action and stressed the urgency of a green transition for the labour sector on the opening of the International Labour Conference (ILC), which coincided with the World Environment Day 2023.
Originally published on www.un-page.org