We did it! The 2023 Global Climate Jobs Conference has come to an end. More than 100 climate justice activists, trade union members and representatives, labour organizers, researchers and academics, from around 15 countries and 4 continents, came together in Amsterdam for 3 days of conference. During the conference we […]
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In August, we had the pleasure of participating in the Nuestro Futuro, Nuestra Energia meeting ( https://nuestrofuturo-nuestraenergia.org/ ). This was a meeting organized by a group of Mexican organizations to create a space for analysis and articulation that seeks to open and democratize the public debate on energy and its […]
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 […]
Há uma enorme metamorfose a ocorrer no mundo. Um clima em convulsão a aproximar-se do colapso força até o sistema capitalista a mutações a contra-gosto. Os estados despejam em cima das empresas fósseis subsídios para garantir os lucros aos acionistas, sem exigir qualquer salvaguarda para quem trabalha na indústria ou […]
Next Tuesday, live at 14h (London time) in English and live at 16h (London time) in Spanish! We will have our first live webinar from the Global Climate Jobs campaign. Join us to know how things are happening in Portugal and Spain, where mobilization on climate justice, climate jobs and […]
The Transnational Institute with allies has brought together experts and activists to discuss how this pandemic health crisis exposes the injustices of the global economic order and how it must be a turning point towards creating the systems, structures and policies that can always protect those who are marginalised and […]
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 […]
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 […]
This declaration was written by unionist and climate justice activists, gathered in Lisbon in November 22nd-25th by the initiative of the Climate Jobs campaign in Portugal and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. The text was launched at the closing session of the 4th International Ecosocialist Encounters. The climate summit in Katowice […]
We have less than a decade to launch a rapid and just energy transition. In order to win, we need the workers and the workers’ organizations fighting for climate and social justice at the same time. And this requires better dialogue and stronger alliances between climate justice groups and workers’ […]