Transcript Unit3.Climate.change

Unit 3. Climate change
Global Jobs Pact, Decent Work, Green
Jobs and Sustainability: validation of a
trade union training manual
Kisumu, 22nd to 26th August
Session
• Climate change and its causes
• Impacts in Africa
• Impacts of climate change on employment
• UNFCCC and the international trade union position
Climate change and its
causes
What is GHG effect?
Impacts in Africa
From 0 to 93.9 tons per capita
Impacts of climate
change in employment
STOP HARMING
Mitigation
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Those who harm more: reducing as soon as possible
Those who harm less: starting to reduce the harming
Those who are not harming: demand for the change, fight for the
change..
Some changes are difficult. Rice. Coal. Oil.
Some changes are easy. Energy efficiency. Renewables.
Also in the South: Convenience of clean technology. Specific
problems: Deforestation.
STOP HARMING
As workers
• Reducing emissions as much as we can as citizens.
• Promoting the reduction of emission in workplaces where
possible .
• Being informed. Fight for the protection of workers. Informed
to anticipate adverse effect. Asking for participation.
• Looking for synergies: day cleaning / public transportation
GETTING PREPARED
Adaptation
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How we get prepared? Adaptation
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Capacity building: understanding impacts, enable proper
decision making
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Reduce vulnerability: investing in infrastructure, changing
crops. Employment effects: avoid job losses, job intensive
projects (health, inf)
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National Adaptation Plans
Employment and climate
change
 Effects on employment from climate-induced disruptions (i.e.
displacement, migrations, unemployment in climate-sensitive sectors and
climate refugees)
 Effects on employment from the implementation of adaptation
measures (i.e. investments in infrastructure or transformations in
production),
 Effects on employment from the impact due to mitigation efforts. (i.e.
negative.: sectors linked to fossil fuels and other energy intensive (as steel,
iron, aluminium, cement…) (i.e. positive. : new sectors: renewable
energy, energy efficiency, recycling, environmental services..)
UNFCCC and the
international trade union
position
UNFCCC Process
United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change
United Nations
Convention on
Climate Change,
1992
Kyoto Protocol, 1997
5.2% reduction of
GHGs 2008-2012
2007 – 4th IPCC Report
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Keeping the global temperature increase to within
2°C
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Emission reduction -85% -50% for 2050.
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Short term objective: -25 –40% for 2020
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Risk on taking decisions based on conservative
Copenhagen Agreement,
2009
What will happen after
2012?
(2012-2020?)
Labour movement in the
negotiations
Building a common position
Challenges:
 To position on the debate from a global perspective.
 To promote the integration of the labour agenda in debates
 To put forward solidarity & social justice as essential principles in
climate change negotiations and policies.
Strategy
 Political weight in TU agenda
 Participation in UNFCCC process
 Strengthen TU capacities
Labour movement in the
negotiations
Political weight in TU agenda:
ITUC Working Group on Climate Change (2007)
ITUC Tasck Force on Climate Change (2008)
ITUC Statement to the COP 15 (2009)
ITUC 2nd Congress Resolution (Vancouver, June 2010)
ITUC General Council Resolution (Brussels, Feb 2011)
Several National and regional TU statments: Argentina, Brazil,
America, Europe, Japan, Poland, Spain, UK, US...
Labour movement in the
negotiations
Key elements of the ITUC Statement:
Binding, fair and ambitious agreement for the post 2012-framework
Global emission reduction of 85% by 2050, developed countries: 25-40%
reduction from 1990 levels by 2020.
Developing countries, steps for transition to a low-carbon economy.
Government-driven investments, innovation and skills development and social
protection.
Sufficient public funding allocated by developed countries to adaptation in
developing countries. – USD 200,000 m (2013-1017)
Public funding to develop sustainable long-term industrial policies, aimed at
retaining and creating decent and “green”/sustainable jobs.
JUST TRANSITION!
Labour movement in the
negotiations
ITUC position:
JUST TRANSITION: sharing the cost and the benefits in a equitable
way
 Minimize negative effects in most vulnerable communities and
groups
 Protect most affected groups: strenghten social protection and
security systems. Protect jobs.
 Promote “decent work”
 Put in pactrice democratic decision making and control – Social
Dialogue
 Research and anticipation
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COP16 Cancun outcomes
Disappointing results of Copenhagen. Not much expectations.
Some advancements:
Principles: equity, right to development, historical
responsibility of developed countries, just transition and
decent work, respect of human rights.
Procedures: creation of a Green Climate fund, Adaptation
framework, Technology Mechanism to facilitate technology
transfer.
NO COMMITMENTS IN REDUCTIONS
The way to Durban
CHALLENGES for TU movement:
To operationalise these decisions (mandate for ILO to establish
the means to guarantee a JT towards a climate-sound society)
To ensure a deal is reached on mitigation and finance, which are
ultimately the only means through wich a just transition will be
possible.
To maintain support for ambitious climate action and finance for
CC policies in a context in which unemployment is expected to
remain high.
To identify the best means for translating the Just Transition
language into ipmlementation at national level.
Group 1
ACTIVITY 7: From your own experience, which do you think would be the main
difficulties to tackle environmental issues from you trade union or at your
workplace? Do you think you could get support from other actors (employers,
government, environmental NGOs, civil society groups)?
GROUPS
GROUP 1
- Togbe (Ghana)
- Noah (Kenya)
- Anthony (Uganda)
- Ochuli (Nigeria)
GROUP 3
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(Tanzania)
Mary (Malawi)
Thulani (South Africa)
Joe (Kenya)
GROUP 2
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Godwin (Kenya)
Carolyn (Kenya)
Jane (Mauritius)
Nyasha (Zimbabwe)
Group 1
CHAPTER 9 AND 10
ACTIVITY 1: Is chemical risk prevention part of the OHS agenda within the
trade union? If yes, which activities you promote? If not, which actions you
think would be necessary to promote? At the union level and workplace.
Group 2
CHAPTER 11 AND 12
ACTIVITY 2: Which policies would you like to see your government promoting to
address desertification, deforestation and the lost of biological diversity? Which
measures would you propose to them?
Group 1
CHAPTER 13
ACTIVITY 3: Considering the discussions and tables presented, do you think
your job could be affected by climate change or by policies to fight against it?
Why? Which measures do you think could be implemented to facilitate a Just
Transition in your sector/region?
To all groups
ACTIVITY 4: Make a list of terms from Unit 3 that you think it would be good to
include in a glossary (a list of words that you find a bit difficult to understand or
that would require further explanation).
+ Examples to be included
Apollo image of the planet
Body text
Thank you - Asante Sana
CONCENTRACIÓN
550 ppm CO2e
RIESGO DE SUPERAR
LOS 2ºC
entre el 68% y el 99%
450 ppm CO2e
entre el 26% y el 78%
400 ppm CO2e
entre el 2% y el 57% (27%
media)
350 ppm CO2e
8% media
CAMBIO:
respecto a la media 1961-90: +0,40 ºC
respecto a la era preindustrial 0,74ºC
TOP 5 emitters for the year 2005
Country or region
China
% of global total
annual emissions
Tones of GHG
per capita
17 %
5.8
United States
16 %
24.1
European Union-27
11 %
10.6
Indonesia
6%
12.9
India
5%
2.1
Accumulated Emissions 1950 - 2000
PROTOCOLO DE KIOTO
Países industrializados (Anexo 1) : Reducción -5,2% en 2008/20012
Anexo 1
Unión Europea
- 8%
Unión Europea
- 8%
Liechtenstein, Mónaco,
Rep. Checa, Bulgaria,
Eslovaquia, Eslovenia,
Estonia, Letonia, Lituania
Estados Unidos
- 7%
- 6%
- 5%
0%
1%
8%
10%
- 28 %
- 21 %
- 21 %
- 13 %
- 12,5%
- 7,5%
- 6 %
0 %
0 %
+ 4 %
+ 6,5%
+13 %
+15 %
+25 %
+28 %
Japón, Canadá,
Hungría, Polonia
Croacia
Rusia, Ucrania,
Nueva Zelanda
Noruega
Australia
Islandia
año base
40
1990
22/03/2017
Luxemburgo
Alemania
Dinamarca
Austria
Reino Unido
Bélgica
Países Bajos
Finlandia
Francia
Suecia
Italia
Irlanda
España
Grecia
Portugal