Between February and July 2022, the Climate Jobs campaign in Portugal produced a series of articles on the Sines council in the Alentejo coast in Southern Portugal. In July 2022, the campaign launched a report, “Por uma Transição Justa em Sines”, synthesizing the results of those articles. The following is […]
Yearly Archives: 2022
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Background This is the third publication of a funding proposal for the Climate Jobs campaign in Portugal, following the two previous publications: Funding Climate Jobs — Izaura Pires de Carvalho, Gonçalo Pessa, José Ricardo Sequeira i How to Fund Climate Jobs in Portugal — Jonathan Neale ii Below is a […]
The European Commission and the Portuguese government say everything is fine. Hundreds of millions of euros of investment, thousands of new jobs, a “new growth strategy” (as the European Ecological Pact puts it). The climate transition is on its way, and all that is left is to compensate those who […]
Last weekend we hosted the Global Climate Jobs Online Conference! Thanks to everyone that joined and helped make this conference happen! If you could not participate you can now watch the recordings from the speakers from all the 9 sessions online here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcPv5xadLJYWEPC1ijBdCZA. We were very pleased to have brought […]
Jonathan Neale is a writer and trade unionist in Britain. He has been a climate activist for almost twenty years, helping to organise glolbal demonstrations and climate jobs campaigns. Jonathan’s most recent book is Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs. In this video he tells us […]
We need to cut emissions, and we need to cut them quickly. We need structural change in the way. The Climate Jobs campaigns seek to build bridges between the struggles for climate justice, dignified employment, work security, and democratic access to natural resources, by rejecting the false dilemma of jobs […]
Register through the link here: https://forms.gle/i3W1ycKEz74TSMME7 We know that the points of convergence between the labor and the climate movements are immense, but that several challenges lie ahead of us. It is nevertheless of extreme importance and urgency to cut emissions and do so by drawing on plans that are […]
The 2022 Lisbon Declaration on Climate Jobs and Just Transition was written as part of the training that took place in January 2022, in Lisbon, and was attended by 20 participants from 11 different nationalities. The declaration was later presented at the final plenary of the V International Ecosocialist Encounters, […]
During January 17th and 18th, the Global Climate Jobs Campaign hosted a training in Lisbon, on Climate Jobs and Just Transition. 20 people from 11 different nationalities (Portugal, Spanish State, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Turkey, Ireland, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Netherlands) attended the two days training. The main goals of the […]