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Trade Union Climate Summit: Registration Extended
Announcement - Global Climate Jobs, June 29, 2015
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No jobs on a dead planet!
Trade Union Climate Summit #unions4climate 14 & 15 September, 2015 Paris
You can download a flyer for the summit here: flyer_climate
• Join trade union leaders, experts & activists campaigning to mobilise for a zerocarbon future
• Showcase how the union movement is working to de-carbonise our workplaces and industries
• Campaign to secure jobs with a Just Transition as industries transform
• Let’s ensure workers have a right to know about how employers plan for a zerocarbon future and what governments can do.
Guest speakers include: Laurent Fabius (French Minister of Foreign Affairs & upcoming COP21 President); Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber CBE (tbc) (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact); an interview with Naomi Klein (Canadian author This Changes Everything); Hassan Yussuff (CLC Canada President) and Jerry Dias (Unifor Canada President); Guy Ryder (tbc) (ILO Director General); Sharan Burrow (ITUC General Secretary), and Global Union Federation and National Union leaders.
PLACES LIMITED TO 250 PARTICIPANTS REGISTRATION CLOSES 15 JULY
Does this sound like you?
• Are you passionate about climate change and concerned for a just transition to a zero-carbon economy?
• Has your union committed to support climate action?
• Do you have plans or ideas for union actions on climate?
Join the Trade Union Climate Summit on 14 & 15 September in Paris
Agenda: Industrial Transformation – Opportunities for growing decent jobs out of an ambitious climate agenda – Just transition – Building alliances – Mobilisation towards COP21 and beyond, and more.
Show-cases: Experiences from unions working to secure jobs and save the planet. Panellists from unions, environmental and development NGOs, employers, experts & activists will take part in debates demonstrating how unions are ensuring a zero-carbon world.
Language: The meeting will be conducted in English, French and Spanish.
Where: French Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) Paris, France
Registrations: Places are limited – the deadline for applications is 15th July
Send nomination to Anabella.rosemberg@ituc-csi.org with your name, union, country
and an indication that your union leadership supports this nomination.
We have limited funds, but let us know if you’re from a developing country
and need some support to come.
This meeting is organised by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), in cooperation with Global Union Federations, Sustainlabour, the One Million Climate Jobs campaign, and French national trade union centres CFDT, CGT and FO. It is supported by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
Contact: Anabella Rosemberg, Anabella.rosemberg@ituc
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