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Guterres asks nations to join climate action job initiative
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IANS | 19 Sep, 2019
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced a new initiative
aimed at ensuring decent job creation and protecting livelihoods to
boost climate action and urged countries to join the project.
The
new 'Climate Action for Jobs' initiative, announced on Wednesday, will
be presented at the Secretary-General's 2019 Climate Action Summit on
September 23 at the UN Headquarters in New York.
The initiative
has been developed jointly by the Climate Action Summit, together with
the International Labour Organization (ILO) and other members of the
summit's Social and Political Drivers Action Area, co-led by Spain and
Peru.
It provides a roadmap for ensuring that people's jobs and
well-being were at the centre of the transition to a carbon-neutral
economy.
"Today -- along with the ILO and partners Spain and Peru
-- we are launching the Climate Action for Jobs, an initiative to put
job creation and protecting livelihoods at the centre of national
climate action plans," Guterres said.
"Some 1.2 billion jobs or
40 per cent of world employment rely directly on a healthy and stable
environment. Business cannot succeed on a planet that fails. Jobs cannot
be sustained on a dying planet.
"We will need government,
businesses and people everywhere to join these efforts so we can put
climate action into a higher gear," he added.
The new initiative
calls on countries to formulate national plans for a just transition,
creating decent work as well as green jobs, and also sets out specific
measures for inclusion in these plans, including assessing the
employment, social, and economic impacts of climate action.
Also
implementing skills development and upgrading measures and designing
innovative social protection policies to protect workers and vulnerable
groups.
According to the ILO, measures to green the production
and use of energy will lead to net job gains of some 24 million jobs by
2030.
As emissions have increased to record levels and global
temperatures continue to rise, the Climate Action Summit aims to
galvanise actions that will reduce emissions and build climate
resilience.
It will launch concrete initiatives that governments, businesses and people everywhere can join to boost climate action.
ILO
Director-General, Guy Ryder, who will be attending the UN Climate
Action Summit, said: "The actors in the world of work -- governments,
employers and workers -- have a key role to play in developing new ways
of working that safeguard the environment for present and future
generations, eradicate poverty and promote social justice by fostering
sustainable enterprises and creating decent work for all."
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