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Sustainable development, decent
work and green jobs
Conclusions of tripartite discussion at International
Labour Conference, June, 2013
Lessons for the MENA region
Christine Hofmann, ILO Cairo
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Introduction
Two defining challenges of the 21st century:
 Achieving environmental sustainability:
Overuse natural resource, pollution, water scarcity, land
degradation, biodiversity, climate change
 Decent work for all:
Unemployment, working poverty, lack of social protection
Both are intimately linked
Transitions to greener jobs need to be just
and managed well
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Background: Green Jobs and the ILO
Flagship publications:
• Green Jobs Report I, 2008
• Working towards sustainable
development, 2012
• Skills for green jobs, 2011
• Green Jobs mainstreamed through
ILO’s work: capacity building,
assessments, tools, policy advice,
technical cooperation
• General discussion at ILC, 1 year after
Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable
Development. Outcome: tripartite
conclusions
• World of Work to formulate guidance
for national initiatives
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Seizing the opportunities and managing the
challenges
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Job creation
 An environmentally sustainable economy could lead to +0.5-2 %
more employment i.e. 15- 60 million additional jobs
 More with higher investment
 Gains may be higher in emerging economies and developing
countries than in industrialized ones
2. Improving the quality of existing jobs
 Major opportunity and need for improved working conditions,
skills, better OSH, and higher incomes
3. Economic restructuring
– Protection of existing jobs through greening of enterprises
• Improving the productivity of energy and materials is an important
means
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• Particular attention required to SMEs
ILC Conclusions
• Strong social consensus on goals and pathways to
sustainability is fundamental: Governments,
employers and workers are active agents of
change through social dialogue at all levels
• Promote fundamental principles and rights and
work, including gender dimensions
• Anticipate impacts on employment
• Invest in natural resource management and env.
sustainable production and consumption
• Design coherent policies to provide enabling
environment for enterprises, workers, investors
and consumers to drive transitions
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Recommended key policy areas to promote
green jobs and manage transition
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Macroeconomic and growth policies
Industrial and sectoral policies
Enterprise policies
Skills development
Occupational safety and health
Social protection
Active labour market policies
Social dialogue and tripartism
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Energy sector: Working towards
sustainable development (ILO, 2012)
• Shift to low-carbon energy supply will have
important net positive effects on employment
and help address energy poverty in rural
communities
• Growth of the renewable energy industry has
supplemented jobs in the fossil fuel sector, not
replaced them
• Job losses in the fossil fuel industry mainly due to
rising mechanization and labour productivity
• Renewable energy jobs are of better quality than
in fossil fuel industry (if deployment is gradual)
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Findings from Egypt: Skills for green jobs
ILO/GIZ Conference: Skills for green jobs. The
case of composting and renewable energy
19 November 2012
• Lack of coordination: No institutional mechanism
to link skills and environmental policies
• No systematic data collection on skills for green jobs
• Skills forecasting mechanisms do not systematically
analyse skills for green jobs
• Organizations dealing with the environment are well
aware of skills requirements
• Formal education and training system has not
mainstreamed environmental concerns and related skills
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Findings continued
Findings from Egypt cont.
• Skills response scattered and mainly by enterprises onthe-job or variety of specialized providers and centres of
excellence
• Missing incentives: Energy subsidies (e.g. for green
building)
• Some skill and occupational requirements:
– Environmental auditor,
– energy and clean production advisors,
– bio-fuels operator
Strengthen networks, collaboration and
cross-fertilization between actors
Start dialogue on needed skills responses
today
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Policy coherence for green jobs in France
Study by Boston Consulting Group (2009):
green growth in France could secure 600 000 jobs by 2020
Grenelle de l’Environnement
5 parties: government, unions, employers, NGOs and local authorities.
Social dialogue!!
National
Strategy for
Sustainable
Development
2009-2012
Training is
included!!
Mobilization Plan for Green Jobs
• Mobilization of the State
• Mobilization of industries
• Mobilization of territories
• 11 Sectoral Committees: analysis on
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skills needs in the
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ILO Resources
Are green
jobs
decent?
Think pieces
Research: e.g. Green building
sector in South Africa, Global
impact of e-waste, Skill needs in
green building and renewable
energy
Assessment tools for green jobs
potential, sector assessments,
Training manuals for workers
Forthcoming:
- A step-by-step guide on
identifying skill needs for green
jobs
- International Conference for
Labour Statisticians to discuss
Green Jobs Definition
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Thank you for your attention
The reports
are available at:
http://www.ilo.org/skills and
http://www.ilo.org/cairo
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