Transcript Course Orientation

A154017
Regional Trade Union Training on the
Validation of the training manual entitled
“Sustainable Development and Decent Work:
a training manual for African workers”
Course Orientation
Aims of Orientation Session
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To explain the objectives and expected
outcomes of the course.
To review and confirm the course
programme (timetable).
BACKGROUND
Interaction between the various components of the
planet’s climate system
BACKGROUND
Impact of Climate Change
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particularly in the tropics and subtropics
BACKGROUND
The Environmental Challenge
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Climate related disasters: 262 million
Water shortages: 1.8 billion by 2025
Environmental refugees: approximately 50
million
Displaced by flooding: 330 million exposed
Food shortages: 180 million today; 660 million
by 2080
Pollution: 2 million premature deaths per year
Biodiversity: 40% of the global economy is
based on biological product.
BACKGROUND
The Environmental Challenge
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1.3 billion working poor (less $2/day)
= 43% of the global labour force.
Unemployment: 190 million globally.
Young job seekers: more than 500 million
new job seekers next ten years.
5.3 billion with no social security.
1.6 billion without access to energy
1 billion slum dwellers.
The developing world, especially Africa
faces more challenges than the developed
countries, in both the impact and capacity
to respond to Climate Change.
BACKGROUND
Economic Crisis and the Old Economy
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Old economy: unsustainable and has not
delivered development for all.
The alternative:
- Green growth
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Green jobs
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Global Green New Deal
Green Growth at a Glance
Transition to Low-carbon & Green Economy
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A global transition to a low-carbon & sustainable economy can
create large numbers of green jobs across sectors of the economy:
Agriculture;
Manufacturing;
Research and Development;
Administration;
Services.
Green Jobs are jobs that help to:
Protect ecosystems & biodiversity;
Reduce energy, material & water consumption through high
efficiency strategies;
De-carbonise the economy;
Minimise or altogether avoid the generation of all forms of
waste & pollution.
Green Jobs: net employment effect
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New Job Creation: Renewable energy sector; energy
performance service, companies; mobility services.
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Elimination: Mining; packaging (materials discouraged or
banned)
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Substitution: Shifting from fossil fuels to renewables,
automobiles to mass transit, waste disposal to recycling, primary
metals, production to secondary production.
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Transformation: Existing jobs greened along with changed
workplace, practices and methods.
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Supply-chain effects (steel for wind turbines).
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‘Radiating Out’ Greening core areas (energy, transport) has
potential to “radiate” downstream
Key Message
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Acting now on Climate Change presents the best
way possible to overcome the challenges of the
global economic crisis through investment in propoor, job-rich and sustainable “green growth.”
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The environment and the economy can no longer
be considered in isolation.
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Era of “grow first, clean up later” is over.
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Neither adaptation nor mitigation alone can avoid
all climate change impacts; however, they can
complement each other and together can
significantly reduce the risks of climate change.
Key Message
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Disasters have no boundaries, as a result it
requires an integrated and coordinated approach
with other international, regional and national
organisations.
There is more to gain from looking at climate and
weather, not only as hazards, but also as a
“resources.”
There is enormous potential for the creation of
decent and green job opportunities through a well
structured transition process.
Course Objectives
 Contribute to the enhancement of the
environmental knowledge and skills of trade
unionists so as to enable them play a more
constructive role in the shift towards a low
carbon economy.
 Review, orient, edit and adapt the training
manual entitled “Sustainable Development
and Decent Work: a training manual for African
workers” to reflect concerns of workers.
Main Focus of the Training Course
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Develop a tool for trade unions in Africa to promote an
integrated approach to sustainable development
through a just transition in which social progress,
protection of the environment and economic needs are
integrated within a framework of democratic
governance based on respect for labour and human
rights.
Enrich, edit, fine tune and validate the trade union
training manual on “Sustainable Development and
Decent Work: a training manual for African workers”
with a view to ensuring its user friendliness.
Key Issues to be Discussed
 Overview of ILO’s perspective on Green Jobs and
Sustainability.
 General
presentation
on
draft
manual
on
Sustainable Development and Decent Work: A
Training Manual for African Workers.
 Country, sectoral and regional reports on progress
towards the implementation of the GJP, DWCP,
Green
Jobs
Initiatives
and
environmental
sustainability.
 Brief presentation and group work on Unit 1
“environmental sustainability: a framework for
discussion.”
Key Issues to be Discussed
 Brief presentation and group work on Unit 2 “labour and the
environment.”
 Brief presentation and group work
environmental challenges of our time.”
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Unit
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 Develop individual Action Plans specifying what each
participant intends to achieve upon his/her return home to
carry forward the momentum generated during the workshop.
 Course evaluation.
Main Outcomes Expected
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Clear knowledge about the content and
the structure of the draft manual.
Adoption and approval of the edited
version of the manual as a training tool to
be use by trade unions in Africa.
Development of Action Plans
Methodology
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The workshop aims to be participatory and will
involve group work.
Therefore be active and participative in all
activities throughout the worshop.
Your experience would not only inform everyone
but also enable all of us to come up with Action
Plans that would be workable and relevant.
Feedback is welcome on a daily basis.
Evaluation
 Mid course evaluation
 End of the Course Evaluation
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Feedback is welcome on daily-basis
Any Questions?