COP16 side event
Assessing the employment impact of environmental conservation, restoration and sustainable land management
This session will highlight the potential of EmpIA methodology to assess the employment impacts of green programmes, including those harnessing nature-based solutions (NbS), and of environmental changes themselves.
Biodiversity conservation, restoration, and sustainable land management often involve various activities that have important employment effects, which are very frequently not taken into account or highlighted. Direct as well as indirect employment effects can be analysed and measured through employment impact assessment (EmpIA). Measuring the effects of green interventions on employment is essential to shed light on important ‘side effects’ and to promote the creation of more and better jobs by informing policy and investment decision-making.
This session aims to highlight the potential of EmpIA methodology to assess the employment impacts of green programmes, including those harnessing nature-based solutions (NbS), and of environmental changes themselves. The session will include presentations on employment impact assessments conducted by the ILO, followed by a panel discussion.
- Presentation on the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in measuring the employment impacts of environmental effects – 15 mins
Speaker: ILO - Presentation on the Employment Impact Assessment of the Talaky Be land restoration project in Madagascar -15 mins
Speaker: ILO - Panel discussion on measuring employment of green interventions (30 minutes)
The panel discussion aims to highlight work on assessing the employment effects of green interventions. Among others, collaborative work on employment and NbS will be discussed, including a conversation around data and policy considerations for such assessments. The discussion will shed light on the importance and feasibility of understanding the employment impact of interventions and touch on some examples. It will include panellists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Biodiversity Foundation Spain and the Ministry of Labour.