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22 November, 2000Trade union and business representatives, in an historic event at the Climate Change Conference, establish a basis for working together on measures relating to climate change.
GLOBAL: A press release issued today (November 23) by the ICFTU, TUAC and ETUC trade union delegation at the Climate Change Conference in The Hague states that trade union and business representatives have pledged to work together to obtain official recognition by world governments of the employment and social implications of climate change, or measures to mitigate its effects.
The workshop at the COP6 (the Sixth Session of the Conference of the Parties) was hosted by the above-mentioned three labour bodies: the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD and European Trade Union Confederation.
Also pledging their support for the international effort to place employment security on the Climate Change agenda were the International Labour Organisation and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Before the standing-room only workshop session, spokespeople pledged their support for labour's demands for quality research on employment or transition measures related to climate change.
The 30-member ICFTU/TUAC/ETUC trade union delegation to the COP6, which opened on November 13 and closes on November 24, was composed of representatives from Barbados, Germany, Japan, Norway, Spain, the Netherlands and the United States, as well as the International Metalworkers' Federation and Public Services International.
A proposal was discussed to set up a US/EU trade union working party to seek consensus on the most appropriate strategy to ensure that an adequate social dimension is included within the application of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
The overall aim of the Climate Change Conference is to clear the way for ratification of this Protocol, committing developed countries to specific targets for cutting down their greenhouse gas emissions.
The workshop at the COP6 (the Sixth Session of the Conference of the Parties) was hosted by the above-mentioned three labour bodies: the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD and European Trade Union Confederation.
Also pledging their support for the international effort to place employment security on the Climate Change agenda were the International Labour Organisation and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Before the standing-room only workshop session, spokespeople pledged their support for labour's demands for quality research on employment or transition measures related to climate change.
The 30-member ICFTU/TUAC/ETUC trade union delegation to the COP6, which opened on November 13 and closes on November 24, was composed of representatives from Barbados, Germany, Japan, Norway, Spain, the Netherlands and the United States, as well as the International Metalworkers' Federation and Public Services International.
A proposal was discussed to set up a US/EU trade union working party to seek consensus on the most appropriate strategy to ensure that an adequate social dimension is included within the application of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
The overall aim of the Climate Change Conference is to clear the way for ratification of this Protocol, committing developed countries to specific targets for cutting down their greenhouse gas emissions.