Background Following a first training organised during the previous work programme and entitled "Trade unions and the recovery plans," this training will question the social and environmental dimensions of the recovery plans. In Italy, for example, CGIL is invited in May to meet the government on... Find out more

Climate change is causing people to leave their homes and move to other areas in their country. Sometimes climate change triggers displacements across borders. According to data provided by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) and cited by Euronews, “climate events causing displacement... Find out more

The ETUI Education department would like to invite you for the second edition of a course entitled Capacity building training on green competences related to just transition (Network of trade union trainers) that will take place for 14 weeks from 12/09/2022 to16/12/2022 in a blended format (online... Find out more

Background Climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are mutually dependent: climate change poses a risk to economic development, and on the other hand, a successful low-carbon transition depends on social, economic, and environmental development. Objectives This training will... Find out more

EU Member States are fraught with spatially distributed socioeconomic inequalities. For example, let’s think about the north-south divide in Italy, the east-west cleavage in Germany, or the polarisation between EU urbanised growth centres and their peripheral areas. The EU’s transition agenda to a... Find out more

Intergenerational equity designates fairness or justice between generations. It can be applied to fairness in dynamics between young workers and old workers or between generations currently living and future generations. This training will analyze the notion of intergenerational equity in the... Find out more

Workers who live in energy inefficient buildings are more exposed to cold spells, heat waves, and other impacts of climate change. According to the EU Commission, energy poverty, defined as a situation in which people cannot keep their homes adequately warm, is a significant challenge in the Member... Find out more

Maintaining public support for a transition to a low carbon economy will only be achieved through targeted measures designed to reduce the vulnerabilities of specific workers. The objectives of this training are twofold: First, to analyze the distributional impacts of just transition initiatives... Find out more

At the end of February, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report entitled 'Climate Change 2022: impacts, adaptation and vulnerabilities'. This report provides 'strong scientific proof of the close interconnection between climate change, environmental... Find out more

Extremes weather events ( e.g. extreme heat) need to be treated as escalating public health emergencies. This training aims at assessing the threat climate change ( e. g. extreme heat) poses to worker health with a specific focus on outdoors workers. Find out more