climate change; the employment and social policy dimension

1. climate change; the employment and social policy dimension Peter J Glynn

2. Introduction • What is the Role of the IOE? • To be the advocates for member employer organisations in international fora. • To provide leadership on the issue. • Who am I? • Peter J Glynn • IOE Advisor (climate change) • Previously CEO of national industry association, 6000 business members, 80 staff, 8 regional offices, Councillor ACCI

3. Sujets de discussion • IOE climate change mandate • What we are doing • What are the Issues • ILO-Green Jobs • ILO GB climate change discussion paper • ITUC • International Negotiations • In conclusion

4. IOE Climate Change Mandate • The industries most effected by climate change are energy, transport, construction, tourism and agriculture. There will also be significant consequential impacts on all workplaces because of changes to input costs, shifts in consumer trends, requirements for supply chain compliance and maybe labour agreements.   • Many industries will be required to restructure, in a compressed timeframe. Workplaces will change, occupational profiles and skill requirements will vary. It will be essential that EOs are pressing their national governments and vocational and educational systems to deliver the skills required by employers in a climate-sensitive marketplace.

5. What is the IOE Workplan? • Overseen by a members’ Climate Change Advisory Committee (Convenor, Ronnie Goldberg) • Provide information to members so they: • are informed about the issues • can effectively represent the interests of business to government • Can assist and advise members (refer IOE website, discussion paper, etc.) • Advocate the issues in our spheres of influence Note; not doing what other organisations are doing.

6. IOE Climate ChangePolicy Mantra National strategydevelopedaround the requirements for: - economicgrowth, development and job creation; - solutions for the long term; - sustainability of business (=employment) - labour market planning; - skills; - responsibilityfairlyallocated

7. Our Networks • Climate change • UNEP • UNFCCC • ICC • WBCS • USCIB • Workplace and social policy • ILO • ITUC • UNEP • European bank • BIAC/OECD

8. Current Pressure Points • Green Jobs Initiative • Phase 1, green jobs report • Phase2, labour market planning • ILO report to GB re Climate Change • UNFCCC/Kyoto • UNFCCC Spillover effect  • ILO ITC Green Jobs training • Green Jobs Initiative, next phase (labour market planning)

9. Current Opportunities • Green Jobs Initiative • Phase 1: green jobs report • Phase2: labour market planning • ILO report to GB re Climate Change • UNFCCC/Kyoto • UNFCCC Spillover effect  • ILO ITC Green Jobs training • Green Jobs Initiative, next phase (labour market planning) • UNEP and UNFCCC accreditation

10. Green Jobs Intitiative - UNEP/ILO/ITUC/IOE - Phase 1: Green Jobs Report - Phase 2: green economy, labour marketmodellingtool

11. ILO Green Jobs Report, July 08 Green Jobs are …jobs that help protect and restore environmental quality…have decent work (adequate wages, safe working conditions, and workers rights and the right to organise labour) A schematic view: Green and decent - unionised wind and solar power jobs Green but not decent - low wage installers of solar panels Decent but not green - unionised car manufacturing worker Neither decent nor green - Hog slaughterhouse workers

12. ILO Governing Body Climate Change Discussion Paper, Sept 08 • Focusses on the search for ways to combine growth, the reduction of poverty and inclusive development • Maintaining a policy framework that facilitates and encourages change is one of the main responsibilities of employment and labour ministries • Climate change will be yet another management challenge, as there have been management challenges in the past

13. Just Transition • Those negatively affected are protected through income support, retraining, relocation assistance. Social dialogue is critically important …worker union voice is needed to help determine the design of new sustainable production systems and work practices • Compensation, retraining, re-employment and relocation with special emphasis on the most vulnerable workers, including women • Social dialogue: adapting to change will require the free flow of information to do so, backed by the right to such information. • … on the essential subject of collective bargaining

14. What should the ILO be doing? • Is it working beyond its mandate? • GB and constituents did not discuss • PPP policy • Accountability? • No reporting • Is it the subject for a code of practice

15. ITUC • Want employment protection standards in UNFCCC negotiating texts (spillover effects) • Is an accepted advocate at international negotiating sessions • The 3  Rs • Recycle, re-use, return-NO!!! • Redundancy, retraining, relocation-YES • The free flow of information/right to information! • Sustain labour • Climate change in collective agreements

16. International Negotiations • UNFCCC/Bali Road Map, the 4 pillars • Mitigation • Adaptation • Technology • Finance and investment • Kyoto, post 2012, negotiated Dec 07-Dec 09 • Working group KP, Next Commitment period and targets • Range of emissions targets • Span of commitment period • Emissions trading mechanisms • Additional GHG’s! • SPILLOVER EFFECT!!! The question of economic impacts of actions in developed countries…on employment and trade.

17. Benefit to Members • Professional leadership at international fora • Advice and guidance for those members that need it • Decisions about climate change made in international fora are complementary to the work and policy activity of national employer organisations’ members

18. In conclusion • Each country situation is different, each country must be able to decide the appropriate course of action • Decisions about regulation will be decided in the host country, not by the ILO or the ITUC under the banner of climate change