The role of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in mitigating and adapting to climate change

The International Labor Organization has issued multiple reports on research that shed light on new and emerging issues regarding the impact of climate change on global employment, the skills required for a greener future, and the implications of heat stress on the workplace. At the 2018 G-20 meeting in Argentina, it prepared The International Labor Organization (ILO) published a special report on the impact of climate change adaptation on employment. In particular, the report looks at measures to adapt to climate change that would create employment through green work and protect workers and incomes. In addition, the report proposes accompanying policies and enabling measures, including measures related to the establishments in order to achieve the maximum positive impact on employment due to the transition to a climate-adaptive economy, and the transition to the energy sector was the focus of most of the research and analyzes addressed by the organization, and the organization also established a center Training at the University of Pretoria in South Africa on measuring and modeling the effects of climate change on employment, in cooperation with a number of organizations and countries, and aims to provide institutional capacity development The use of models and other quantitative assessment tools to measure the social impacts of climate change related to employment and sustainable development policies using methodologies developed by the International Labor Organization. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and its staff have contributed significantly to the negotiations, the most important of which is support for the creation of a task force on displacement and recommendations that refer to the importance of ILO standards adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention at its fourth session. The twentieth year in 2018 and is being implemented as part of the five-year plan developed by the working groups, and the organization has cooperated with the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification through a memorandum of understanding signed in 2019 and many other endeavors undertaken by the organization to adapt to climate change.

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