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Elisabeth Schroedter, MEP:
Greening the labour market: Combating climate change and ensuring global competitive
advantages
ETUI Conference: Climate Change: An opportunity for social cooperation
29-30 March 2011
Elisabeth Schroedter, MEP
Greening the labour market
Combating climate change and
ensuring global competitive
advantages
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Elisabeth Schroedter, MEP:
Greening the labour market: Combating climate change and ensuring global competitive
advantages
Challenges:
- step up efforts in combating climate change to
meet objective of reducing CO2- emission by
2050 by 80-90 % and keeping global warming
under 2 degree.
clear focus on energy- and resources efficiency
that will also provide answer to ever increasing
competition over scarce resources
Defend leading position of EU globally in
ecological production
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Costs in the production of raw iron, steal and ferroalloy
(enterprise with more than 1000 employees; source DGB
Bildungswerk)
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- Greenpeace estimates worldwide green job
potential at over 8 million jobs
- ILO definition: nearly all jobs are potentially
green jobs
Job creation
Protecting jobs in struggling sectors
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Number of jobs
Expectations of the sector
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Elisabeth Schroedter, MEP:
Greening the labour market: Combating climate change and ensuring global competitive
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10 years constant
Electricity
Market incentive
programme
Annual fluctuations
Quota, taxes
erratically changing
Heating
Fuel
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Elisabeth Schroedter, MEP:
Greening the labour market: Combating climate change and ensuring global competitive
advantages
How can traditional enterprises get ready for the
future?
 EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGY
Energy-efficiency + resource-efficiency =
Protecting the environment and saving resources, reducing CO2emissions and promoting sustainability
 NEW AND MODERN METHODS OF ENERGY INDUSTRY
 NEW MATERIALS AND MODERN PROCESSING
IMU-Institut Berlin Gmbh für Profi-Metall Berlin-Brandenburg
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Elisabeth Schroedter, MEP:
Greening the labour market: Combating climate change and ensuring global competitive
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What does that mean for the labour market ?
 New job profiles in old and new sectors
 Traditional job profiles will change
 Traditional sectors will produce new products
 Traditional structures regarding job profiles and
sectors will remain to exist
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Elisabeth Schroedter, MEP:
Greening the labour market: Combating climate change and ensuring global competitive
advantages
What does that mean for employment?
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Large need for specialised workers
Potential in all skill segments!
Need for training (new technologies and methods)
Promotion of Women in STEM professions
Lifelong learning
Integration of elderly workers in training and work
 Right to training for all workers
 Training and Lifelong learning responsibility of employers,
employes and governments alike
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Elisabeth Schroedter, MEP:
Greening the labour market: Combating climate change and ensuring global competitive
advantages
Green jobs = decent work!
 Ecological transformation needs wide acceptance
 Change to new jobs or within job must be attractive
 Willingness/Openess for training must be high
 High flexibility in the new sectors will only be accepted when
workers feel safe and well treated
 Ecological transformation needs strong social partnerships
 Cooperation between trade unions and ecological organsiations
   learning from the Blue-Green-Alliance in the US an Canada 12
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Elisabeth Schroedter, MEP:
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Conclusions
 Long term framework conditions provide perspective
to invest in ecological transformation and to exploit
green job potential
 Huge demand for training in all skill sectors
 Skill shortage will hinder potential for sustainable
economic development
 Strong social partnerhsip and blue-green alliances
will help shape a socially just transformation with
green decent jobs
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Elisabeth Schroedter, MEP:
Greening the labour market: Combating climate change and ensuring global competitive
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Employment Guidelines of the EU
Conclusion of the EPSCO Council, 21.10.2010
„(10) The policies of the Union and of the member States, including
their reform programmes should aim at „sustainable growth means
building an energy and resource-efficient, sustainable and
competitive economy, a fair distribution of the cost and benefits
and exploiting Europe’ s leadership in the race to develop new
processes and technologies, including green technologies. Member
States and the Union should implement the necessary reform to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and use recourses efficiently,
which will also help to prevent environmental degradation an
biodiversity loss. They should also improve the business
environment, stimulate the creation of green jobs and help
enterprises to modernise their industrial base.”
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Elisabeth Schroedter, MEP:
Greening the labour market: Combating climate change and ensuring global competitive
advantages
Conclusion of the EPSCO Council,
6 December 2010
The Council Conclusions of 21 October 2009 "Towards
sustainability: Eco-efficient economy in the context of the
post-2010 Lisbon Agenda and the EU Sustainable
Development Strategy"2, which invite Member States to use
employment and education policies to reduce current skills
gaps for eco-efficiency and to facilitate workers' employability
in higher growth sectors such as eco-efficient construction
and housing, sustainable transport, renewable energy and
recycling, while encouraging the creation of new green jobs;
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Greening the labour market: Combating climate change and ensuring global competitive
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