The Covid-19 pandemic has shown what happens when governments ignore scientific warnings. Terrible as that has been, the effects of climate change will be far worse. We need to act now. Humanity faces an environmental crisis and an economic crisis. Unemployment is rising at dizzying speed. We will need Green […]
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On May 1st, the webinar Talks For Future organized by Fridays For Future International focused on a just transition for workers! Sinan Eden from the Climate Jobs Campaign (Empregos para o Clima) in Portugal and Hannah Martin from the Green New Deal UK talked about why a just transition is […]
And so, as a new decade begins, the climate crisis has passed the duck test. It looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, so it probably is a duck. It is declared an emergency by the European Parliament and it feels like an emergency for most […]
Jobs for the Climate! On 22nd of November, unionists and climate justice activists from ten countries and five continents gathered closely before the 4th International Ecosocialist Encounters in the “Lisbon Just Transition Gathering” to share experiences of their fights and to discuss possible convergence points between labor and ecological movements. […]
Until fairly recently, Renewable Energy was widely seen as being the welcome future that couldn’t come soon enough. Most dramatically, this changed, in March 2017, when a coal truckers’ demonstration caused peak-hour traffic mayhem in Pretoria. The cause of the mayhem was the truckers’ hostility to the Government’s intention of […]
The climate jobs campaigns from Portugal, United Kingdom and France, together with Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, had a workshop in People’s Climate Summit in Bonn. Just Transition: Stop Lying and Start Doing Hedge funds, banks and capitalists are not investing enough in renewables to stop climate change, and Trade […]
Dois mil ativistas juntaram-se esta semana em Toulouse na Universidade de Verão Europeia para Movimentos Sociais da ATTAC para participar em cerca de cem atividades (seminários, debates, fóruns, oficinas…). As quatro campanhas de Empregos para o Clima na Europa também marcaram presença em duas sessões. Sindicalistas e ativistas climátic@s do […]
Around a thousand activists gathered this week in Toulouse for the ATTAC’s European Summer University for Social Movements to participate in a total of hundred sessions (debates, seminars, fora, workshops…) and the Climate Jobs campaigns from across Europe were also there. We had unionists and climate activists from the United […]
Sindicalistas, ambientalistas e ativistas pela justiça social reuniram-se em Bruxelas no dia 21 de junho, numa reunião convocada pelo Altersummit, para discutir o tema “transição justa”. O objetivo desta iniciativa foi criar um espaço seguro (safe space) para partilhar impressões e experiências sobre uma possível convergência entre o movimento climático […]
A campanha Empregos para o Clima está presente em 9 países do mundo, envolvendo movimentos sociais e sindicatos numa luta em defesa do clima e do emprego digno. Em Nova Iorque, sindicatos do sector das energias, dos transportes e da construção civil uniram-se para que juntos pudessem levar a campanha […]