ILO Green Week and Earth Day 2021

Africa regional launch of the Climate Action for Jobs Initiative and “the social dimension of the ecological transition” project

In the context of the ILO’s Green Week and this year’s Earth Day, the ILO and its tripartite constituents will host a regional launch of the Climate Action for Jobs Initiative. The event will also launch the social dimension of the ecological transition project on advancing climate action, a just transition, and decent work in Africa.

19-23 April 2021: ILO Green Week

“Strategies on Reducing and Utilizing CO2 for Cost Effective Business” Roundtable

As part of the Decent Work in Garment Supply Chains Asia project, the ILO is partnering with the UN ESCAP Sustainable Business Network to bring together the textile and garment sector and the cement industry to share, discuss and further CO2 reduction activities.

Decent Work in the Garment Sector Supply Chains in Asia

Roundtable: Strategies on reducing and utilizing CO2 for cost effective business

As part of the Decent Work in Garment Supply Chains Asia project, the ILO is partnering with the UN ESCAP Sustainable Business Network to bring together the textile and garment sector and the cement industry to share, discuss and further CO2 reduction activities.

Event

ILO Green Week

As the world grapples with the devastating economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 crisis, we ask: How can we build back better? How can we build back greener? Join innovators, business leaders, policy experts and environmental practitioners from around the globe to explore what a green future of work could look like, and how we can get there.

Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF Development Committee

COVID-19 recovery must be human-centred

09 April 2021

To be effective, we need a global response that is addresses poverty and inequalities, promotes social dialogue, strengthens the institutions of work and supports social justice, the ILO’s Director-General said.

Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank

COVID-19 strategies must invest in human-centred recovery, ILO tells World Bank/IMF

09 April 2021

Economic and social recovery from the pandemic will require policies that promote decent work, address poverty and inequalities, and encourage a green recovery, the ILO’s Director-General has said in statements to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s Spring Meetings.

Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF

We need a just transition and a green recovery from COVID-19

08 April 2021

To be effective, pandemic recovery strategies must be as human-centred in their impact as the effects of the crisis itself have been, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder told the IMF Committee.

News

ILO hosts first-ever virtual exhibition on sustainable enterprises

07 April 2021

In an online event organized with the ITCILO, ENTERPRISES staff engaged with colleagues from their virtual booths, sharing materials, chatting and networking.

News

Joint UNTFSSE-SEE event in the framework of European Social Economy Summit

29 March 2021

Social Economy Europe and the UN Taskforce on Social and Solidarity Economy will co-organise the event “Social and Solidarity Economy: leading the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the contribution to a fair recovery”.

News

ILO highlights the role of employment in infrastructure development at the UN Environment Management Group meeting

23 March 2021