Transcript Green jobs course - Sustainlabour :: International Labour

Green Jobs
Online Training Course
Welcome to your Green Jobs course.
This first week we will use to get familiarized
with course content, the online work platform
and introduce ourselves.
During this course we hope we can help you to
increase your knowledge on "Green Jobs”,
green economy, just transition and other
related issues.
Knowledge on these issues can help us assess
what policies are needed in order to
guarantee the sustainable and just world that
we all are fighting for.
We hope you find this course useful and its
content appealing.
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The online course takes approximately 30
hours.
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Every week a UNIT will be made available at
the online platform.
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Each training UNIT contains video links and
exercises.
Go to the website and Log in to the online
platform.
** You will receive an email from your tutor
with your password and user name.
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Explore the available tools and the Forum.
Contact us if you have any problems
connecting to the platform.
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Unit evaluation: At the end of each unit we
will present exercises. Those need to be done
and sent to the group. Some exercises will
consist of watching videos and/or
commenting on them, taking a quiz, or
writing 2-3 paragraphs on a given issue.
Final task: it will be requested that you write a
short essay as your final evaluation. More
information on it will be send shortly.
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Read the materials.
Do proposed exercises and send to group or
tutor (Note that some training UNIT:s include
powerpoint presentation).
Send comments, thoughts and doubts to tutor
and/or participants. Course tutor will be available
throughout the entire course. Don’t hesitate to
send questions as well as your suggestions.
Engage, engage, engage on online discussions…
an online training, or any training is a dialogue.
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Online courses have a great advantage: you
can plan your own schedule.
We suggest you connect to the online course
2-3 times a week. But let’s put it this way: the
more, the merrier.
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Please note that this course doesn’t require
any previous knowledge on green jobs.
However, we will provide additional reading
suggestions.
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A world in crisis
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Social challenges
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The environmental crisis, much more than the depletion
of ecosystems
Recognising the limits and the need for a change
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Improving efficiency
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Integrating environmental costs into the equation
The Green Economy as a pathway to sustainability
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Guiding principles
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Enabling conditions for the creation of Decent Green
Jobs
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Regulatory frameworks
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The South African reality
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Challenges and opportunities for Green Jobs in South Africa
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Institutional framework and policy measures for Green Jobs in SA
Green Jobs in South Africa
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Current Green Jobs and potential employment creation data in SA
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Impacts on employment quality
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Impacts on gender
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Skills needed for new jobs
A fair distribution of the costs and opportunities: A Just Transition
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Defining Just Transition
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Social Dialogue for managing the transition
Experiences from SA and other countries: Trade unions and the Green
Economy
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Greening all sectors: Green workplaces committees and
representatives
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Cooperatives and social enterprises for the transition
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Week 1- Introduction: 26 Nov–30 Dec
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Week 2- Unit 1: 3-7 Dec
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Week 3- Unit 2+3: 10–14 Dec
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Week 4– Unit 4: 17–21Dec
24 December – 4 January:
Holiday Break
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Week 6- Unit 5+6: 7–11 Jan
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Week 7- Unit 7: 14–18 Jan
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Week 8 & 9- time to elaborate final
Project: 21 Jan-1 Feb
Week 10- Final comments/doubts and
feedback from tutor on Project: 4-8 Feb
On course content
For the 190 million unemployed in the world, and for
over 500 million job seekers over the next 10 years,
labor markets are vital not only for the production and
generation of wealth, but equally for its distribution.
Economic action and social policies to create gainful
employment are critical for social cohesion and stability.
It will be crucial that work is also geared to the needs of
the natural environment.
Green Jobs can be a bridge between social, economical
and environmental policies.
Green Jobs are defined as jobs that...
“reduce the environmental impact of enterprises and
economic sectors, ultimately to levels which are
sustainable. They contribute to reducing the need for
energy and raw material, to avoiding greenhouse gas
emissions, to minimizing waste and pollution, and to
restoring ecosystem services like clean water, flood
protection and biodiversity.”
Source: “Green Jobs: Towards decent work in a sustainable, low-carbon future.
At the same time,
they must also ensure better
working conditions and real
environmental improvements.
Green Jobs must equal decent
work and employment and
seriously address issues such as
poverty alleviation and the
protection of the environment.
(International Trade Union
Confederation)
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Climate change may not be the only challenge
we face. However, it has the power to
exacerbate and accelerate other natural
processes that have huge impacts on
communities such as: drought, floods,
desertification, tornados.
So what are some of the solutions and actions
taken by trade unions?
Trade unions are already
engaged on international,
national and regional negotiating
processes to put us on a
sustainable path.
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Throughout this course, we will
share more on green jobs and
green workplaces experiences
around the world.
In South Africa, for example, you
have engaged on designing a
Green Economy accord. In
Uganda, workers have developed
a training material for truck
drivers.
Step 1: Fill out the survey
Step 2: Introduce yourself
Step 3: Watch the video on climate change
The next 3 slides will provide you with further
information on each step
This survey is of great help for your tutor – that will
be able to better assess which themes to boost and
which ones should be given extra attention and
support.
The results you get from this first assessment will
not be part of the evalution of your acquired
knowledge. Just click on the link below and answer
the questions.
Follow this link and complete the survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/X833Z6M
Send a message to the online Forum
introducing yourself to the group (*your
organization, sector, where you live, etc.)
If you want, you can add personal interests as
well.
http://www.upworthy.co
m/the-real-talk-nojargon-guide-toglobalwarming?c=ufb1
This straight forward video
address: what climate change
is and where we are heading
if we don’t halt temperature
rises and change our
production and consumption
patterns.
Catarina Silveira – course tutor
[email protected]
Ana Belen Sanchez – Sustainlabour Project coordinator
[email protected]