The Green Jobs Training Site
The Green Jobs site is the knowledge sharing platform of the ITC ILO. It provides information about the link between climate and environmental change and transitions in the world of work. It gives examples of how enterprises, workers and governments contribute to cleaner and greener production and consumption patterns through green jobs. But it also gives you the opportunity to prepare for one of ILO's Green Jobs training courses.
The platform and courses are being developed and regularly revised by the ITC ILO and ILO experts in order to best match training and learning needs of policy makers.
The full set of ILO work on Green Jobs can be found on the site http://www.ilo.org/integration/themes/greenjobs/lang--en/index.htm.
Add your voice
This platform is an interactive place where you can share personal examples and experiences of low-carbon and decent work cases from your own company or country. Send a short message to our webmaster and your case history will be uploaded and shared.
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The Green Jobs Initiative – a joint collaboration between UNEP, ILO, IOE and ITUC
Green Jobs have become an emblem of a more sustainable economy and society that preserves the environment for present and future generations and is more equitable and inclusive of all people and all countries. But evidence shows that green jobs do not automatically constitute decent work. Many of these jobs are “dirty, dangerous and difficult”. Employment in industries such as recycling and waste management, biomass energy and construction tends to be precarious and incomes low. If green jobs are to be a bridge to a truly sustainable future, this needs to change. Green jobs therefore need to comprise decent work. Decent, green jobs effectively link Millennium Development Goal 1 (poverty reduction) and Millennium Development Goal 7 (protecting the environment) and make them mutually supportive rather than conflicting.
Click here for more information on the definition of green jobs or here to read the Green Jobs Report published in September 2008.
