All publications: Energy generation
Policy Brief
Green jobs and just transition policy readiness assessment in the energy sector in Indonesia
The ILO as part of PAGE Indonesia’s activities undertook a Green Jobs Policy Readiness Assessment to develop a baseline perspective of current green jobs and just transition policy frameworks in Indonesia. The assessment focused in detail on the...
Summary
Greening Enterprises: Transforming processes and workplaces [Summary]
Report
Greening Enterprises: Transforming processes and workplaces
Report
Renewable Energy and Jobs: Annual Review 2022
This new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) provides the latest estimates of renewable energy employment globally.
Guidance
Environmental and social safeguards guidelines
The ILO’s Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) links public investments with employment creation, poverty reduction and local economic and social development. The need to protect people and the environment, requires implementers to limit...
Special edition: Labour and Policy Perspectives
Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2021
In 2020, despite the global pandemic, jobs in the renewable energy sector grew to 12 million. This IRENA/ILO co-publication provides the most recent estimates of employment in this sector at the global level and for individual industry segments.
Report
Skills for the Renewable Energy Sector (SkiDRES) Project Report
The International Labour Organization (ILO), with funding from the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), has collaborated with the Kafue Gorge Regional Training Centre (KGRTC) to implement a project titled: Skills Development for...
Sectoral Assessment of Women’s Entrepreneurship Development in the Agriculture and Renewable Energy Sectors in Somalia
Central American dry corridor: An exploration of the potential of a job creation strategy for Guatemala and Honduras
Research Department Working Paper n°28
The transition in play: Worldwide employment trends in the electricity sector
This paper analyses the employment effects of electricity generation by different sources on a worldwide scale as observed since the year 2000.
STRENGTHEN Publication Series
Rural renewable energy investments and their impact on employment
Working Paper No. 1
Chinese supplier training: Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE): Public-Private Partnership
Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) is a practical training and in-factory counselling programme that improves productivity and working conditions in small and medium enterprises. The product demonstrates best international...
Green jobs and renewable energy in Namibia: low carbon, high employment
This fact sheet analyses the renewable energy and jobs potential in Namibia.
The economics of biogas. Creating green jobs in the dairy sector in India
The study analyses the economics and employment of the cow dung industry whilst also paying attention to the environmental and emission aspects. Based on a case study of the dairy cluster in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, the paper argues for an...
Providing clean energy and energy access through cooperatives
This publication is a collection of case studies on cooperatives in energy production, distribution and consumption as a contribution to the on-going search for ways in which the goal of sustainable Energy for All can be turned into a reality.
Mainstreaming environmental issues in sustainable enterprises: An exploration of issues, experiences and options
Employment Working Paper No. 75
From shipyard to renewable energy centre: Tomorrow’s jobs will be green
The following article shows that – with resources and imagination – ways can be found to meet the twin challenges currently facing the world: the need to move towards an economy based on a much lower carbon footprint whilst at the same time bringing...
Energy, Jobs and Skills: A rapid assessment of potential in Mtwara, Tanzania
Special Paper 09.32, Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
ILO Southern Africam Multidisciplinary Advisory Team, Harare
HIV and AIDS Policy for the Energy Sector of Zimbabwe
The Policy provides in detail the rationale, HIV preventive strategies, prescriptive solutions, and the priorities for mitigation that should be employed in combating the contracting, spread and effects of HIV. It deals with the rights and...
Shipbreaking. What can be done?/ Démolition de navires. Comment gérer le problème? - DVD (Bilingual: English, French)
This DVD contains the documentary "The Shipbreakers" in English and French as well as the text of the ILO's "Safety and health in shipbreaking: Guidelines for Asian countries and Turkey", in English, French, Spanish, Bengali, Chinese, Hindi and...