Near the end of this month, from March 27 to 28, the European Gas Conference (EGC) organized by Energy Council takes place in Vienna. This conference brings together Europe’s main gas suppliers to discuss “the security of supply and the new role for LNG on the continent” and how to […]
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We share the norwegian podcast Fra krise til håp, done by the Norges Sosiale Forum, who have interviewed Leonor Canadas form Climáximo and Chris Baugh form the labour movement in the UK to speak on the climate jobs campaign in the UK and globally during the European Summer University 2022. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
We need to cut emissions, and we need cut them quickly. This cannot be achieved through austerity and sacrifices. We need to change the way we do things, and implement structural changes. And that’s a lot of work to do. The Climate Jobs campaigns connect the dots between the climate […]
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 […]