ITUC - Trade Unions & Climate Change

Climate change will affect all aspects of our lives, in particular the way we produce and consume. Its immediate impacts will target the poorest and most vulnerable people. It will certainly also have effects on employment. Measures taken to combat climate change, in particular those aiming at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while crucial, will require important transformations in the world of work and generate opportunities and challenges for workers and trade unions.

Trade unions are committed to call on all governments and, in priority, those in developed countries and major economies in the developing world to firmly commit to emission reductions, on the basis of their different responsibilities and respective capabilities.