ACT/EMP launches a new site on climate change issues

The Bureau for Employers’ Activities (ACT/EMP) of the ILO launches a new website on climate change issues and IOE publishes its engagement in the Copenhagen process.

In order to help employers' organizations and their members to better understand and actively participate in the on-going Copenhagen climate change process, the ILO's Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACT/EMP) has launched a new information webpage.

The Copenhagen climate change negotiations and agreements, as well as the future policies, programmes and financial and technological resources necessary to implement those agreements, will undoubtedly have significant consequences on employers and their organizations around the world. Climate mitigation and adaptation activities are expected to become key factors to be integrated within all national economic and social development policies and programmes, including in particular initiatives such as policies related to industrial development, trade, energy, water, agriculture, transport and other infrastructure necessary to the success of enterprises. It is therefore important that EOs play an active role in those processes in order to ensure that their needs are adequately reflected and taken into account. This site aims at assisting them by providing a number of useful information.

This webpage contains:

- an introductory page on climate change and EOs

- A page presenting opportunities and challenges of the on-going climate change process for EOs

- Issues to be considered by EO while assessing the importance of climate change for the achievement of their overall strategy and priorities

- Finally, key resources and useful links on climate change.

It should be translated in French and Spanish before the end of the year.

To view the web page, click here.

The IOE also publishes a brief on IOE’s engagement in the Copenhagen process. In the document “What next after Copenhagen?”, the organization presents its claims and its action plan to face the changing labour markets that climate change policies will bring.

Read the statement by clicking here.