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Sustainable development, climate change and trade unions: useful documents and links
Relevant documents
- The ETUI Documentation Centre provides a regularly updated list of bibliographical references on the following three topics: Sustainable development, Climate change, Green jobs - Green economy. Some of the documents can be directly downloaded from the website, but if you are interested in those that are not, please contact the TURI coordinator.
- ETUI Working paper (April 2009): Paradigm Shift: Social Justice as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development
- For the bibliography collected in the course of the ETUC, Syndex, Istas, SDA and Wuppertal Institute study 'Climate change and employment' (state February 2006), please click on the link below
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- Development of a Concept for an EnergySavingFund for Germany: information about the project from HBS (in German), information from Wuppertal Institute (in English and German, full text of publication), article presenting the results in Böckler Impuls 7/2007 (in German)
- Work & Environment Interdisciplinary project commissioned by HBS: Results (2001)
- The Labour Research Department (UK) has kindly placed at TURI's disposal the following research papers:
- Sustainlabour: A training manual for workers and trade unions on 'Climate change, its consequences on employment and trade union action'
- ETUI Education department publication on trade unions and sustainable development
- The UNEP- ILO- IEO - ITUC Green Jobs Initiative & report : UNEP , ILO
- DG Environment: Studies on links between the environment, the economy and employment
- Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
- European Commission: 'European Economic Recovery Plan'
- Journal of European Social Policy (JESP), Vol. 18 (4): 325-344 (November 2008 issue): JESP symposium: Climate change and social policy
- New Labor Forum, Vol. 17 (3): 31-37, Fall 2008: Green-Collar Jobs, Industrial Policy, and a Society with a Future, by Bernard Marszalek (for a free version of this article, please click here )
- Trade Union Statement to COP14, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - UNFCCC, Poznan, Poland (1-12 December 2008)
- CSC: Changement climatique: l'urgence d'agir; January 2009
- LO Norway: Climate strategy 2005-2009
- LO Denmark: The New Climate Agenda
- TUC: A Green and Fair Future
- TUC: Unlocking Green Enterprise. A Low-Carbon Strategy for the UK Economy
- ABVV/FGTB: Climate-change policies of the Belgian Socialist Trade Union
Interesting links
- ETUI Health & Safety Department (HESA) Archive: Publications on Sustainable development
- Trade Union Vision on Sustainable Transport (TRUST) project
- Spring Alliance (ETUC, EEB, Social Platform)
- GURN Sustainable Development
- European Commission: Sustainable Development, Climate Change
- Gateway to the UN's system work on climate change
- - UNEP Labour and the Environment
- - UNEP Green Economy
- - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Climate Change activities
- Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress
- The French Economic Observatory (OFCE): Environment
- OECD Environment Directorate
- TUAC Sustainable development
- Policy network: The Politics of Climate Change
- A Green New Deal (The New Economics Foundation)
- Center for American Progress: Energy & Environment
- Jeremy Rifkin: The Hydrogen Economy
Relevant events
- 29-30 January 2009 Kick-off Conference Spring Alliance: Preparing for EU-leadership on sustainability. A Social and Green Agenda for the Next Decade
- 9 February 2009 Green Housing and Green Jobs: Setting the pace for a decade of green and social growth
- 24 February 2009 Social Fairness in Sustainable Development: A Green and Social Europe
- 26 February 2009 ETUI Monthly Forum: Assessing environment-friendly policies from a labour and social perspective
- 27 April 2009 TUC: Green Growth: A Low-Carbon Strategy for the UK
- 28 April 2009 FUSL La gouvernance européenne face aux crises: Economie, énergie-climat, migrations
- 28-29 April 2009 Spring University of IRES (Paris): The World Tomorrow, from Financial Capitalism to Sustainable Development
- 9 June 2009 TUC Greenworkplace Day 2009
- 22-23 June 2009 Restructuring Forum: Impact of Climate Change on Employment
- 23-26 June 2009 Green Week: Climate Change - Act and Adapt