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Planning a green economy in Kenya

The first inter-ministerial workshop on Green Economy was held on Friday, 24 June 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya. This meeting, organized jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Kenyan Ministry of Environment, aimed at initiating...

Table of Contents: Assessing Green Jobs Potential in Developing Countries: A Practitioner’s Guide

Message by Juan Somavia, Director-General of the ILO, on the occasion of World Environment Day 2011

ILO signs US$1,300,000 partnership with Korean Government

The ILO and the Government of the Republic of Korea have announced their intention to sign an agreement that will enable two new projects to get underway.

Turin: Green Jobs Learning Forum

Opening message at the Launch of Child Labour Knowledge Sharing System (CLKSS)

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Makati City, Philippines

Opening address at the Greening the Labour and Employment Agenda 2011-2016 and the Philippine Jobs Pact

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines

Green Jobs set to improve youth employability in six of Syria's 100 poorest villages

Youth from some of Syria’s poorest regions are learning to harness solar energy to improve their living standards in an environmentally sustainable way.

Climate Change and Labour: Interview with Lene Olsen

The Bureau for workers’ activities (ACTRAV) has published the issue of its International Journal of Labour Research, devoted to sustainable development. At this occasion, the Specialist on Workers’ Activities, Lene Olsen gave somes explanations...

World Water Day (22 March 2011) - Bringing safe water to communities: the role of the ILO

Despite the UN General Assembly declaring that access to safe water is a human right, thousands die each day because of water-related diseases, and many countries are not expected to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals on water. The ILO is...

Opening address at the Roundtable Discussion and Project Committee Meeting on Green Jobs Initiative

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines

Youth join green jobs push in China

Yang Shumbo, a Chinese electronic sciences student invented a device to save electricity. He developed this into a business under a pilot project of the Greener Business Option (GBO), an ILO Green Jobs Programme initiative. GBO aims to encourage...

International Journal of Labour Research: New issue on Sustainable Development

National Green Jobs Conference

The International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the Ministries of Labour and Labour Relations and Productivity Promotion, is organizing a two-day National Conference on Green Jobs from 24-25 January 2011.

Indonesia to participate in the ILO’s Green Jobs Project in Asia

Climate change is an issue of high priority for Indonesia. Like many other countries in Asia and the Pacific, Indonesia has also voluntarily committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions or carbon intensity per unit of GDP by 2020. Indonesia is...

Crisis response

MDGs remain achievable despite setbacks due to the crisis

UN Summit "Keeping the Promise: United to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals" despite global crisis hindering growth and employment

ILO Forum on Green Jobs for a Better Life, Shanghai World EXPO

The International Labour Organization (ILO), together with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS), All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) and China Enterprises Confederation (CEC), organized a Forum on Green Jobs for a...

ILO supports Guyana's greening of the economy in the framework of its Low-Carbon Development Strategy

A three-day Workshop on Green Jobs as they relate to Guyana's LCDS highlighted the ILO's Green Jobs Initiative and focused on the concept of green jobs and employment opportunities in Guyana

ILO pays courtesy visit to Minister of Labour