Climate Jobs
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This article aspires to act as a comprehensive directory of grassroots and advocacy organizations and campaigns advocating and organizing for climate jobs.
- Organized Power - United States
- Organized Power is organizing for climate jobs.
- Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/organizedpower.org
- Event: After The People’s Climate March, What Next? - Tuesday, November 11, 2014
- Slides From Presentation: (Coming soon.)
- Event: After The People’s Climate March, What Next? - Tuesday, October 14, 2014
- Slides From Presentation: The People’s Climate March, What Next? - Tuesday, October 14, 2014
- Event: After The People’s Climate March, What Next? - Tuesday, September 23, 2014
- Slides From Presentation: After The People’s Climate March, What Next? - Tuesday, September 23, 2014
- One Million Climate Jobs Campaign (OMCJC) - South Africa
- The One Million Climate Jobs Campaign is an alliance of labour, social movements and other civil society organisations in South Africa that are mobilising for real solutions to the threat of climate change. Cutting the pollution of those gasses that lead to climate change is urgent and involves doing many things. Overcoming unemployment and giving decent work to our people is just as urgent. By placing the interests of workers and the poor at the forefront of strategies to combat climate change we can simultaneously halt climate change and address our jobs bloodbath. This is why we campaign for our government to create a million climate jobs now. Our demand is based on well-researched solutions for how South Africa can immediately begin a just transition to a low carbon economy.
- One Million Climate Jobs | Campaign against Climate Change - Great Britain
- We face a climate crisis and an economic crisis in Britain and across the world. We have people who need jobs and urgent work that needs to be done to shift to a low-carbon economy. The Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union group has led the UK campaign for a million climate jobs, linking to similar campaigns in other countries.
- Green Economy Network - Canada
- We have come together as members of unions, environmental and social justice organizations to form a common front of civil society groups for the building of a green economy in Canada. In so doing, we realize we are living in one of those critical moments of history wherein urgent decisions and actions must be taken that will ultimately affect our destiny as a people, a nation, and the planet itself.
- Belgian Climate Coalition - Belgium
- The Belgian Climate Coalition - a network of 70 trade unions, environmental and development organisations - launched the communication campaign www.Jobs4climate.be The campaign highlights the economic benefits of strong climate policies, focusing on job creation through sustainable investments. In Belgium investments in energy renovations, renewables, the smart grid and public transport would create 60.000 new direct and indirect jobs. On the website you can find five short movies in Dutch and French. The campaign aims to spread the word about the benefits of strong climate policies and reach out to more than 2 million Belgians. It is being supported by CAN Europe members BBLV, 11.11.11 and Greenpeace Belgium.
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- The Belgian Climate Coalition - a network of 70 trade unions, environmental and development organisations - launched the communication campaign www.Jobs4climate.be The campaign highlights the economic benefits of strong climate policies, focusing on job creation through sustainable investments. In Belgium investments in energy renovations, renewables, the smart grid and public transport would create 60.000 new direct and indirect jobs. On the website you can find five short movies in Dutch and French. The campaign aims to spread the word about the benefits of strong climate policies and reach out to more than 2 million Belgians. It is being supported by CAN Europe members BBLV, 11.11.11 and Greenpeace Belgium.
- Monday, June 18, 2012 | People's Summit, Rio de Janiero
- (1) How Climate Jobs can help solve the economic and environmental crises - 18th June: 10-12, Auditorio Menor; and, 12-13.30, Tenda 22
- (2) How we can build a Global Climate Jobs Network - 21st June: 11.30-13.30, Tenda 5
- Description: In order to solve the environmental crisis we face, we need to create millions of jobs that can reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, increase renewable energy generation, reduce energy use and expand public transport. In South Africa, Great Britain, Canada and other countries, campaigns for Climate Jobs are bringing together environmentalists, trade unionists and organisations of the unemployed. Come and hear about these campaigns and discuss how we can create a global network uniting workers and environmentalists which can help solve the economic and environmental crises. Climate jobs are a key bridge to a low carbon, sustainable society.
- Supported by:
- One Million Climate Jobs campaign (South Africa)
- Green Economy Network (Canada)
- Concerned Scientists (Norway)
- Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (USA)
- One Million Climate Jobs campaign (Britain)
- Campaign Against Climate Change (Britain)
- Contact:
- Email: climatetradeunion@gmail.com
- Web: www.climate-change-jobs.org
- The Alliance for Jobs and Climate is pulling together public and private sectors, trade unions and business, the occupy movement and faith groups, environmentalists and entrepreneurs, young people and academics, change-makers and ordinary people around two fundamental demands.
- 1. MASSIVE INVESTMENT IN JOBS.
- Decent jobs to meet real needs, transform our economy and safeguard the planet on which we depend on for our lives.
- 2. MASSIVE SHIFT TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.
- Powering extraordinary innovation, meaningful employment, securing energy supply and reducing energy prices.
Climate Jobs Meetups From Around The World
- Saturday, November 22 at 3:00pm - 4:30pm. Cambridge, UK.
- Tuesday, November 18 at 7:15pm - 9:00pm. Friends' Meeting House, Manchester, 6 Mount Street, M2 5NS Manchester, United Kingdom.
- Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 7:00pm. Oxford Town Hall, UK.
- Tuesday, 21 October, 2014 7pm-9pm at Quaker Meeting House, St James St, S1 2EW. Presented by Sheffield Climate Alliance and The People's Assembly - Sheffield & South Yorkshire.
- Facebook Invite Page: One Million Climate Jobs: The Alternative to Austerity
