The inauguration of Joe Biden as the new American president has given the world reason to hope that the US will re-join the global effort to tackle climate change. And indeed, in his very first days of office he approved a series of measures that should bring climate concerns back onto the US... Find out more

Voices on the US Elections Here are a few of the most interesting commentaries and analyses we found on the outcome of the US elections and its impact on workers and the Green New Deal. MIT Technology Review has an extensive analysis on ‘what Biden will and won’t be able to achieve on climate change... Find out more

The ETUC adopted a resolution on the European Commission's new EU Adaptation Strategy (as part of the European Green Deal). The key demands state that the Strategy should: address the impact that climate change will have on working conditions and employment be legally binding and include a strong... Find out more

In her recent talk during a conference on working time reduction and climate crisis, Professor Juliet Schor from Boston College emphasised that it is impossible to sufficiently decarbonise – say, aiming at reducing emissions by about 10 per cent annually, which is very ambitious – without reducing... Find out more

In recent months, several of the world biggest carbon-emitting countries have joined the European Union in a pledge to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 (Japan, South-Korea) or 2060 (China). All in all, over 110 countries have made similar promises. But what are these ambitious targets really worth... Find out more

A collective sigh of relief and celebration was heard around the globe when the media on November 7th finally announced Joe Biden as the new President-Elect of the United States. It was not the projected blue-wave expected by many, instead, it was a convincing but still contested victory dissolving... Find out more

The ETUI Education Department announced in the ongoing Work Programme the adoption of a green competence framework approach to guide trade union training on climate change and sustainable development. Following this decision ETUI Education organized on 14 September a webinar entitled “The Practice... Find out more

Citizens’ climate assemblies Britain and France have asked citizens to develop ideas and recommendations for future climate policies. These ‘citizens’ climate assemblies’ are rapidly becoming a useful tool for governments to get buy-in for the difficult policymaking of the Social-Ecological... Find out more

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) wrote a letter to the Presidents of the European Council and the European Commission to ask for urgent meetings with the aim to discuss how to reinforce the social partners’ involvement in the design, governance and implementation of the Multiannual... Find out more

Ludovic Voet is confederal secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation. His responsibilities at the ETUC cover sustainable development and climate change, migration, youth policy, non-standard work and the platform economy, education and training, and equality and non-discrimination, plus... Find out more