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COP28: Trade unions call for a labour-inclusive Just Transition
By staff - International Trade Union Confederation, November 27, 2023
Beginning 30 November until 12 December, the COP28 will take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The key ITUC priority for working people at the conference, available here, is the adoption of a Just Transition Work Programme that ensures labour issues are central to climate policy discussions by:
- Upholding human and labour rights while fostering inclusive participation in climate policy formulation.
- Enhancing mitigation ambitions to create quality jobs, backed by just transition measures.
- Delivering on adaptation needs through robust social protection plans and funding mechanisms.
- Providing the finance for the Loss and Damage facility and for investment in just transition.
ITUC General Secretary Luc Triangle emphasised the urgency of the situation: “This year’s extreme weather events have caused widespread disruption, impacting workers globally. It is imperative that COP28 delivers on its promises. We need climate policies that put people and labour rights at the forefront to ensure a transition that is both equitable and effective.
“It is global economic failures that have amplified the disproportionate effects of climate change on working people, including extreme working conditions, threats to livelihoods and forced migration due to environmental disruption.
“That is why we demand a New Social Contract to create a fairer global economy, that focuses on the interests of working people to begin to tackle fundamental inequalities.”
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