The Green Jobs Initiative promotes opportunity, equity and a just transition towards green economy and solutions to defining challenges such as sustainable development and climate change. It encourages governments, employers and workers to collaborate on coherent policies and programmes to realize a sustainable and just transition with green jobs and decent work for all.

When6 May 2009 - 30 November 2014
Development partner(s)The International Labour Organization (ILO); The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); The International Organization of Employers (IOE); The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

The ILO is firmly convinced that a green economy and green jobs present a significant opportunity to overcome poverty and inequality by creating more and better jobs. This transformation of economies can therefore make a major contribution to inclusive growth and to decent work for all.

Project objectives
The project aims to support its constituents, namely government, enterprises, and workers, to move towards a socially fair transition to low carbon and green economy at national and local level.

Green jobs are decent jobs that:

  • Reduce consumption of energy and raw materials;
  • Limit greenhouse gas emissions;
  • Minimize waste and pollution; and
  • Protect and restore ecosystems.

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Green jobs can be created in all sectors and types of enterprises, in urban and rural settings, and in sub-national regions at all levels of economic development.

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    The ILO Green Jobs programme as a whole undertakes different forms of action, including:

    • Conducting research on the social dimension of environmental changes;
    • Developing tools to diagnose green jobs and their potential;
    • Building capacity and providing policy advice to constituents (workers, employers and governments); and
    • Participating in international forums on climate change and sustainable development.

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      The Green Jobs Programme signals ILO’s commitment to act on climate change and to promote resource efficient and low-carbon societies.

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        The ILO’s Green Jobs Programme demonstrates the organization’s commitment to combating climate change and promoting resource-efficient, low-carbon communities.

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