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Climate Change:Trade Unions and the “Paris Contradiction”
Sean SweeneyGLI New YorkGLI SS, July 6, 2016
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Health impacts of fossil fuel use: 7.2 million premature deaths in 2012 (WHO)
Air-pocalypse
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The Paris Accord – Dec. 2015
Threshold: “well below 2 degrees Celsius”
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Energy Information Agency (US) 2015
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Unions staying “on message”
Green Jobs
Decent Work
Just Transition
These policies deserve to be supported… but they cannot resolve the “Paris Contradiction”
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International trade union bodies have largely accepted pro-market ideas
World Bank ILO
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Unions have tried to be constructive….
But the ‘social dialogue’ approach has failed
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Many unions seek a new path
New strategy, and program – that can integrate class with climate – for ‘socioecological’ transformation
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ITF
“A Whole Economy Approach”
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The union-based “Climate Jobs”
“Climate Jobs” campaigns are an important part of this new approach
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If we can’t control the energy system – we won’t be able to stabilize the climate
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