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Sustainlabour International Labour Foudation
for Sustainable Development

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Labour and the Environment
Strengthening Trade Union participation on
Envionmental process
Who says that labour and environment are at odds?

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Joel Decaillon - ETUC President
Bjorn Erikson - ITUC International Trade Union
Confederation
Javier Doz CCOO
Kwasi Adu-Amankwah ITUC Africa
Victor Baez TUCA/CSA TU Confederation of
Americas
Govindasamy Rajakseharan ITUC Asia Pacific MTUC
Malasia TU Congress
Bheki Ntshalintshali COSATU
Temistocles Marccelos CUT Brzasil

Members of the Board
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What are the main actions?
Awarness Raising
Participation
Trade Union action
Training

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What are the main areas?
Climate Change
Sound management of chemicals

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Asia and the Pacific
Africa
Latin America
Geographical scope
Eastern Europe and Central Asia

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Elaboration of training materials
Training - Guides

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Climate change, its consequences on Employment
and Trade Union Action
Sound and Sustainable Management of Chemicals
Training - Guides

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In collaboration with experts UNEP,
ILO,Univesities, NGOs
French, English, Spanish, Russian
Next steps inclusion of regional and
sub-regional data distributed to all ITUC
affiliates from 155 countries
Training - Guides

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Global
Training for Trainers Geneva, May 2008
17 participants 17 countries. Senegal, South
Africa, Nigeria, Togo, Tanzania, Korea, India,
Fidji, Indonesia, Rumania, Polond, Mexico,
Nicaragua....
5 days training Translation 3 languages
High level experts
Training - Seminar

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Global
ITUC Women Assembly Brussels, October
2009 Seminar on Climate Change
TU Training Seminar at UNFCCC COP15 Copenhaguen,
December 2009 Seminar on Climate Change
Training - Seminar

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Africa
Food Security and Climate Change Togo, March 2009
20 countries involved
Regional Conference Labour Envir. Johannesbourg,
October 2009 30 countries involved
Subregional Meetings on chemical management
8 countries involved

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Asia Pacific Regional Conference Jakarta,
November 2008
35 participantes. 19 countries. Pakistán,
Bangladesh, Mongolia, Taiwán, Isla Cook,
Filipinas, Fidji, Corea, Nepal, Jordania, India,
Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malasia, Japón, Australia,
Vietnam. Tailandia, Singapur
3 days training

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Latin American and the Caribean Regional
Conference Buenos Aires, May 2009

25 countries
Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional
Conference Moscow, June 2009
10 countries

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Results
105 countries

260 different participants
Training - Seminar

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BULLETIN

3,000 mailing addresses
Awarness raising

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VI DEO
Green Economy making it real! UNEP and Trade
Unions hand with hand

Trade Unions and Climate Change
It will be launched at
Copenhaguen
Awarness raising

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Identification of Trade Union experiences
299 experiences identified 133 good practices
selected

Trade Union action

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Replication of 4 Good experiences
Global Pesticide Project managemnt of chemicals
in Benin, Burkina Faso and Senegal

Training on installation and mainatance of
renewalbes in Peru
Trade Union action

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Replication of 4 Good experiences
Environmental management on Hotel Facilites in
Asia Pacific, Malaysia

Creating a Departement on Sustainable Development
in Africa Trade Union Regional Structure
Trade Union action

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Promoting and supporting Trade Union
participation in Environmenal Processes

Commission on Sustainable Development / IFCS /
SAICM / UNFCCC Bonn / UNFCCC Copenhague / UNEP
Regioanl Meetings
30 to 34 in 2009
Participation

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http//www.unep.org/labour_environment/
http//www.sustainlabour-labourandenvironment.blog
spot.com/

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Besides the programme
Sustainable Management of Chemicals Uruguay,
Chile and Brazil (SAICM) Climate change training
seminar in China and India. Adaptation program
in Bangladesh International Framework Agreements

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Why is so necessary?

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Green and just recoveries

• The time for being coherent. Short term long
  term.
• Avoiding the doing the right things wrong. No
  easy solutions.
• Not the time for confrontations among the weak
  sides environment jobs / national recoveries
  international solidarity.

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Thank you,