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WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 21: Actress Alyssa Milano attends Vanity Fair and the Fiat brand Celebration of Una Notte Verde with Hans Zimmer and Ron Howard in support of The United Nations International Labour Organization and the Green Jobs Programme on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at Cecconis in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for VF)
The 2009 National Clean Energy Summit brings together high-level industry leaders, scientists, policy experts, and public officials, along with citizens and the media, will gather in Nevada for a day-long summit hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This year’s summit will bring together the nation’s top minds including former President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, energy executive T. Boone Pickens, White House Council on Environmental Quality Special Advisor Van Jones, Nevada State AFL-CIO executive Danny Thompson, and many others to chart a course for our nation's clean energy future.
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Flower farms as part of the local economic development in Pasuruan, East Java, under the ILO's Job Opportunities for Youth (JOY). Year: 2010
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American Energy Innovation Council members announce their “Business Plan for America’s Energy Future” June 10 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
The 2009 National Clean Energy Summit brings together high-level industry leaders, scientists, policy experts, and public officials, along with citizens and the media, will gather in Nevada for a day-long summit hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This year’s summit will bring together the nation’s top minds including former President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, energy executive T. Boone Pickens, White House Council on Environmental Quality Special Advisor Van Jones, Nevada State AFL-CIO executive Danny Thompson, and many others to chart a course for our nation's clean energy future.
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Bill Maher is undisputably the most ignorant man in America today.
Mr. Maher appeared on the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, yesterday, July 27, 2009 and literally called America "stupid". Of course, he was referring to the possibility of Sarah Palin being elected into office as President in 2012, and he admitted that it could quite possibly happen because America is "stupid".
Okay, Mr. Maher. How "intelligent" was America in believing that Obama was actually a centrist? How can you possibly believe that almost 67 million Americans were not stupid when they pulled the lever in support of a man who has no respect for individual liberty - especially when he openly talked about it in interviews, speeches, and press conferences on his campaign trail?
You, Bill Maher, through your blind ignorance, your inability to actually be "in touch" with the people of the United States of America, and to call them stupid for not blindly listening to your rantings and encouragement of accepting "Big Government" and the fascist policies of the Obama administration have just won yourself the official title of "The Most Ignorant Man In America".
Congratulations, you elitist prick!
A classroom of young male and female trainees receive training in installing and servicing solar home systems at the Bogra Technical Training Centre. Bogra TTC is a public training institution in rural northern Bangladesh.
Improving access to technical and vocational skills development for women in non-traditional trades is slowly working towards removing the prevalent gender stereotyping and occupational segregation which has existed for many years. © ILO/Alan Dow/BMET
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A group of rural Bangladeshi women and their children wearing colourful traditional dress receive home-based training in installing and maintaining solar panels in the rural town of Bogra in the Rajshahi division of northern Bangladesh. Improving access to technical and vocational skills development for women in non-traditional trades is slowly working towards removing the prevalent gender stereotyping and occupational segregation which has existed for many years. © ILO
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The 2009 National Clean Energy Summit brings together high-level industry leaders, scientists, policy experts, and public officials, along with citizens and the media, will gather in Nevada for a day-long summit hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This year’s summit will bring together the nation’s top minds including former President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, energy executive T. Boone Pickens, White House Council on Environmental Quality Special Advisor Van Jones, Nevada State AFL-CIO executive Danny Thompson, and many others to chart a course for our nation's clean energy future.
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The Center for American Progress Action Fund and Bucerius Law School, Germany, are pleased to have hosted a premiere transatlantic policy event featuring Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Sigmar Gabriel, German Federal Minister for the Environment.
This event featured an open conversation between Senator Kerry and Minister Gabriel on climate change and the transition to a green economy, and a panel of American and German experts speaking on the role of economic growth and modernization in producing green jobs. The panel drew upon lessons that might be learned from Germany and the EU for the U.S. in shaping a green recovery in light of the need to forge an international agreement in response to climate change.
After receiving training, a woman installs a solar panel on her roof top in the rural town of Bogra in the Rajshahi division of northern Bangladesh. Improving access to technical and vocational skills development for women in non-traditional trades is slowly working towards removing the prevalent gender stereotyping and occupational segregation which has existed for many years. © ILO
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 21: Director of Communication and Public Information of International Labour Organization Marcia Poole (L) and actress Alyssa Milano attend Vanity Fair and the Fiat brand Celebration of Una Notte Verde with Hans Zimmer and Ron Howard in support of The United Nations International Labour Organization and the Green Jobs Programme on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at Cecconis in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for VF)
In a little but enriched living condition of people in a remote village, families rely on renewable solar energy to generate just enough energy for simple devices. © UN4U/Kuntal Kumar Roy.
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Installation of a residential wind turbine is filmed for an episode of the DIY network show "This New House". Bob Hayes of Prevailing Winds and his crew install a Dyocore SolAir 800 I wind turbine which integrates two small solar panels into its design and is capable of producing up to 800 Watts at 12 mph. The two solar panels produce up to 45watts. Redondo Beach, Ca, USA
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The Center for American Progress Action Fund and Bucerius Law School, Germany, are pleased to have hosted a premiere transatlantic policy event featuring Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Sigmar Gabriel, German Federal Minister for the Environment.
This event featured an open conversation between Senator Kerry and Minister Gabriel on climate change and the transition to a green economy, and a panel of American and German experts speaking on the role of economic growth and modernization in producing green jobs. The panel drew upon lessons that might be learned from Germany and the EU for the U.S. in shaping a green recovery in light of the need to forge an international agreement in response to climate change.
Using green jobs technology to alleviate rural poverty: two female trainees in barefoot solar engineering. © ILO
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Climate activists held a picket outside the ministerial offices of Peter Batchelor, Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, at 1 Spring Street, Melbourne highlighting his attendance at a $3000 a head Victorian Coal and Energy Conference meeting at Taralgon in the La Trobe Valley and the Brumby Government's continued in-action on climate change and support for the coal and fossil fuel industry at the expense of developing the renewable energy industry.
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On the one hand the Rudd and Brumby Government say that climate change is one of the most serious problems humanity has ever faced and that they are acting. On the other hand the reason we are here today is what they are actually doing is that they are sending Peter Batchelor to a $3000 day a head coal conference on how Victoria can keep burning coal to Kingdom Come.
And I think Damien Lawson was right when he said there is a simple test. They tell some very complicated lies around carbon trading. But there are simple tests about are they acting or not. The simple test is are we getting large scale renewable energy, are we getting the Mildura Solar power plant, or are indeed are we getting new coal, the new HRL coal power plant. Unfortunately the answer is the wrong way around at the moment and that is what we are trying to change.
If carbon trading came in tomorrow, if we had any sort of carbon pricing, carbon tax, it's not going to build the Mildura Solar Power Plant, and it's not going to stop the HRL power plant. The climate movement needs to be demanding these very practical things about what the Government should do.
When it comes to the Mildura Solar Power Plant it really is part of the smoke and mirrors that the Government is acting on climate change. Brumby has been saying that they are committed to this project for three years, and yet we still don't have a construction date. The Victorian Government put out a media release recently saying that the money is on the table; they want this project to go ahead but the company Solar Systems who were going to build it has been sold to, are saying it may go ahead in 2011 which is conveniently after the next two - state and federal - elections. There is no date for construction.
And the other key thing is that Solar Systems who were going to build it had 150 employees. After the sale, Silex, who it has been sold to, has 14 employees. How are you going to build a solar power plant with 14 employees, let alone continue the research and development programs to commercialise the technology. This was going to be 1000 jobs in construction in Mildura, this was going to power all of Mildura by the sun, and yet it is not going ahead.
I would love Batchelor and Brumby to prove I'm wrong and start construction but it seems that is not happening. What we are getting instead is the coal conference. If you look at the agenda of the coal conference is very much the same sort of thing: on the one hand they are talking about low emissions coal technology, clean coal - it's entirely fantasy - it's about coming up with the lies they are going to need to keep burning coal for as long as possible.
Clean coal is simply not going to work, not going to work at scale. You would have more chance at turning a cigarette into a safe cigarette by adding uranium to it than clean coal going to work.
You don't need to go to a Future of Coal Conference at $3000 a head to understand what the future of coal is. The future of coal is death. If we don't stop burning coal and build renewable energy, we will pass climate tipping points, we will see the deaths of hundreds of millions of people, we will see agricultural collapse, we will see war, we will see starvation, we will see disease, we will see hundreds and hundreds of millions of refugees.
So what Peter Batchelor is choosing is obscene. There is a choice. You can choose the future of coal or the future of the planet. And it is obscene we have Government ministers going to this. Imagine if Peter Batchelor was at a conference on the future of tobacco? the future of Asbestos? But this is what we are getting again and again.
I think that climate change has made renewable energy an essential service. Like Government built schools and hospitals, it needs to start building renewable energy. These things should be part of the social wage. There are more jobs in renewable energy than there are in new coal, the HRL thing is only going to have 35 jobs if it gets up and running. There was going to be a 1000 jobs in the construction of the Mildura Power plant.
The Government should employ people like it employs nurses and teachers to start to transform our economy. People tell you that Governments don't do things directly anymore, but they do. The same week that Solar Systems was sold the Brumby Government gave $363million to build a new roof for the tennis centre directly. That is about the cost of the Mildura Solar power plant.
Nothing against tennis, but what's more important? That we have a planet on which to play tennis or that we have a roof on the tennis centre?
The Government is spending $40billion on the national broadband network directly. They are spending $36billion on new submarines. To put that in context: $36billion you divide that up by $50,000 each, you could employ 700,000 people for that money to begin to transform our economy.
The very last thing I will say is this. I think it was fantastic we had the firefighters union here today. If we are going to force our government to start to do what is necessary to stop climate change, we are going to need a power, which is an alternative power, to the power of the corporations which are currently running the show. I think that power is in the union movement. I think we need union leaders, not just in the firefighters but in every union, we need union members saying again and again and again give us the jobs that will save the world.
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Crop farming in Sichuan, China. © ILO
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This event convened on 9 November 2017, in Bonn, Germany, on the sidelines of the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 23) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It was organized by the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) in collaboration with the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The objectives of the event were: to explore policy innovations that countries are developing to advance the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; and to consider perspectives from international organizations.
Discussions centered on, inter alia: implementing the green economy; best practices; and the interaction between labor markets, trade and the transition to a low-carbon, resilient economy. ©IISD/ENB | Herman Njoroge Chege
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Fisheries biologists survey and tag striped bass in the northern reaches of the Chesapeake Bay as part of the annual survey of the spawning population.
Suk Moo Lee is a sensation in his native Korea: He has combined farming and camping to invent ‘farmping’ on his blueberry farm and, in 2013, his innovation brought in USD 200,000 in profit. © ILO
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ILO's Canada Government funded Bangladesh Skills for Employment and Productivity (B-SEP) project worked with local partners to help entrepreneurs create green jobs through skills and enterprise training, coupled with seed capital and help with marketing. Special emphasis was given to disadvantaged groups, including people with disabilities and the poor. Fatema Akhter with her freshly picked mushrooms.
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Climate activists held a picket outside the ministerial offices of Peter Batchelor, Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, at 1 Spring Street, Melbourne highlighting his attendance at a $3000 a head Victorian Coal and Energy Conference meeting at Taralgon in the La Trobe Valley and the Brumby Government's continued in-action on climate change and support for the coal and fossil fuel industry at the expense of developing the renewable energy industry.
Dr Jim Green is the national nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth Anti-Nuclear & Clean Energy Campaign and national coordinator of the Beyond Nuclear Initiative
For Background see (2005, September) "Nuclear Power: No Solution to Climate Change" (PDF)
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There are some nuclear power advocates who would be only too happy to see the closure of the coal fired power plants in the La Trobe Valley. In that sense at least they are on our side.
But of course they want to replace those coal fired power plants with five nuclear power reactors and that rasies a whole set of other problems.
For starters five reactors over their lifespan would produce 7,500 tonnes of high level nuclear waste. No country in the world has found a solution for high level nuclear waste except to dig a hole and bury it, and no country has even succeeded in that very modest aim of establishing a repository for high level nuclear waste.
To produce the uranium to fuel five reactors over their life span would produce an extraordinary 150 million tonnes of low level radioactive tailings waste at uranium mines. That assumes it comes from Olympic Dam in South Australia.
At Olympic Dam the radioactive tailings leak 24hours a day, it's exposed to the environment so there is radon released 24 hours a day. Birds drink the liquid tailings and drop dead in large numbers, kangaroos jump into the tailings and have to be shot. It's a pretty ugly business.
Worse still. Five reactors would produce enough plutonium over their life span to build 7,500 nuclear weapons. So Australia would be for the first time be a nuclear weapons capable state.
We've been there before back in the late 1960s when Prime Minister Gorton wanted to build a nuclear power reactor at Jervis Bay and they went a long way down that path. They started construction, they had tenders, they selected a reactor type which not coincidentally was ideal for plutonium production. Thankfully Gorton was thrown out and that plan for nuclear power at Jervis Bay came to an end.
But the significant point about that was that Gorton himself later acknowledged that they wanted this reactor, not so much to produce electricity, but to produce plutonium for bombs. So there is a very strong link between nuclear power and weapons of mass destruction (WMD). We've seen that in Australia, we've seen that in many countries around the world.
So we do need to replace those coal fired power plants but not with nuclear power reactors. We need to replace them with a mix of solar, hydro, geothermal, marine wave power, other renewables and energy efficiency.
Lastly, the current debates over dealing with nuclear waste from the small research reactor at Lucas Heights give us an insight into the problems that would be greatly magnified if we go down the nuclear power path.
A young female trainee in the solar home system servicing course which is being run across Bangladesh as part of the ILO Green Jobs initiative.
Improving access to technical and vocational education and training for women in non-traditional trades is slowly working towards removing the prevalent gender stereotyping and occupational segregation which has existed for many years. Photo taken in the rural town of Bogra in the Rajshahi division of northern Bangladesh.
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The Center for American Progress Action Fund and Bucerius Law School, Germany, are pleased to have hosted a premiere transatlantic policy event featuring Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Sigmar Gabriel, German Federal Minister for the Environment.
This event featured an open conversation between Senator Kerry and Minister Gabriel on climate change and the transition to a green economy, and a panel of American and German experts speaking on the role of economic growth and modernization in producing green jobs. The panel drew upon lessons that might be learned from Germany and the EU for the U.S. in shaping a green recovery in light of the need to forge an international agreement in response to climate change.
A Bangladeshi women wearing a colourful traditional sari receives training in producing solar cells at the Grameen Center in the rural town of Bogra in the Rajshahi division of northern Bangladesh. Improving access to technical and vocational skills development for women in non-traditional trades is slowly working towards removing the gender stereotyping and occupational segregation which has existed for many years. © ILO
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Climate activists held a picket outside the ministerial offices of Peter Batchelor, Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, at 1 Spring Street, Melbourne highlighting his attendance at a $3000 a head Victorian Coal and Energy Conference meeting at Taralgon in the La Trobe Valley and the Brumby Government's continued in-action on climate change and support for the coal and fossil fuel industry at the expense of developing the renewable energy industry.
Brian Walters is a prominent Melbourne senior counsel and civil liberties advocate. He is past president of Liberty Victoria, and for many years served as vice-president of Free Speech Victoria. He spoke as a member of the Greens standing as a candidate in the upcoming State election. See Brian Walters for Melbourne: Why the CPRS is worse than nothing.
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It's great to have you all here, and I say all because it is great to have our numbers augmented with the Victoria police who brought along the equine support - thanks for coming - it's great to have you here and no doubt supporting our cause.
The CPRS. Some people say that the Greens are hypocritical for not supporting the CPRS. They say, "well look, this scheme is a step in the right direction, it's better than nothing! We ought to at least support that!"
The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, or the Continued Polluting Regardless Scheme, is worse than nothing at all and it will not be supported by the Greens at any time. Not in this form.
First thing we have to say about the scheme is, and we all know, the targets. They are scandalous! And that is because they have been set by polluters, not by scientists. We are going to pay out as Jesmine said about $24billion at least to big carbon as part of this scheme. $24billion. That means its the first source of revenue in history in Australia which will run at a loss.
And what are we getting from all this money we are paying out to big carbon? Well, according to Treasury modelling, nothing! There won't be any reducton in carbon pollution in Australia. What we will get will be brought in and imported from overseas, and that won't be much anyway.
We are giving major concessions to coal. For the first five years they will be given concessions of course which will give them a windfall in profits and encourages the use of coal. The energy intensive trade exposed industries will get far more: they get 25% free permits - this is industries like aluminium smelting - 25% free permits going up to 45% in 2020. In other words, we are actually encouraging the expansion of major carbon pollution by this scheme.
[Crowd interjection: Corporate Welfare!]
The exact opposite of what we want to achieve.
One of the things about this scheme which I'm not sure has had much coverage, but in my view is the worst part of the scheme, is that it makes it impossible for future Governments to ratchett up the targets. That's because under a section of the legislation the carbon pollution permits, won't just be permits, they will be property rights. You've all seen 'The Castle' and you know the Government of Australia under the constitution can't acquire property except on just terms. So you give this property right to carbon polluters - it's a social evil - give them the right to do this evil thing and make it a property right and it means that future governments down the track can't acquire those property rights or diminish those property rights except on just terms.
Now that is scandalous. And it is not what was proposed by Garnault or by anybody. We are left with a scheme that will make things worse, and it will not be supported by the Greens.
They are digging a hole, they are digging it deeper, they won't stop digging, and they can't get out of it.
They want to take us down into the graveyard caused by their coal mines, and they are happy about that so long as they can clutch onto their riches on the way down.
The climate crisis is the great moral challenge of our age Kevin Rudd, just up the road today. It is. And we need some leadership to confront it. And leadership is not doing no more and no less than other countries are doing, and in fact we are doing less. The solutions are available and they are inspiring. We owe it to our children and to the planet to adopt those solutions.
Thankyou
Climate activists held a picket outside the ministerial offices of Peter Batchelor, Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, at 1 Spring Street, Melbourne highlighting his attendance at a $3000 a head Victorian Coal and Energy Conference meeting at Taralgon in the La Trobe Valley and the Brumby Government's continued in-action on climate change and support for the coal and fossil fuel industry at the expense of developing the renewable energy industry.
Damien Lawson is from the Victorian Climate Action Centre
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This year, is one of the most important years for climate action in Victoria. We've had two years of debate and discussion about how big a problem climate change is. There is widespread understanding now in the community about how big a problem it is. That means we can put enormous pressure on our state and federal Governments leading up to the coming Federal and State Election.
To take real action on Climate change.
How do we know when the State and Federal Government are taking real action on climate change?
Well, we've heard the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme isn't real action, and really its a very very simple test.
Are they taking coal out of the ground and burning it, or are they leaving coal in the ground where it should remain and safely lock away the carbon that is such a threat to, not only firefighters, but geneations to come?
So let's apply that test in Victoria. We've had a Labor Government in Victoria for a decade. John Brumby, who's now Premier, was Treasurer over all that time. What hapenned to the brown coal in Victoria over that time?
Well we know because a recent study was released a couple of weeks ago showed that emissions from burning brown coal in Victoria went up 10 per cent over the last decade. In other words, we haven't been keeping coal in the ground but digging more of it up and burning more of it over the last decade on John Brumby's watch.
So what we want to do this year in the climate movement is turn that around. Not only do we want to stop the 12 new coal fired power stations that are being built around the country, or have plans to be built around the country this year.
We want to go further. We actually want to close and replace an existing power station. And the power station we should all be focused on is the Hazelwood Power station. It is in the Latrobe Valley. It is the dirtiest power station in Australia. It puts over 17 million tonnes of carbon pollution into the atmosphere. It is the biggest single emitter of dioxin in Australia. It's an industrial dinosaur from decades and decades ago. It was built, actually one of the people who built it was my grandfather, in the 1950s and 1960s and it was due to be closed in 2005.
But John Brumby and the Labor Party decided to keep it open. But this year we have a window of opportunity, and the window of opportunity is this election and the fact that the public is clamouring for real action on climate change.
What we're going to be doing is doorknocking, leafleting the inner city in Victoria where Labor Party faces the loss of many seats to the Greens. Putting forward to the public this key election test and that is: will the State and Federal Government commit to replacing Hazelwood Power Station with clean energy by 2012?
Not 'we're going to do something about climate change', not 'climate change is the great moral issue of our time', we are going to close a power station and replace it with clean energy before it is due to be closed and therefore locking up that coal that power station would otherwise have burnt.
That's the key test for John Brumby over the next six months, and I really invite you to be part of this campaign to get that key test out into the community. It can create jobs in the Latrobe Valley. If we replace Hazelwood with clean energy we can create jobs in the Latrobe Valley and create climate jobs across Victoria. It can be done. With wind, with solar, with energy efficiency we can replace Hazelwood with clean energy. I really invite you to be part of that.
Thankyou
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A young male solar home servicing trainee installs a solar panel on a rooftop in the rural town of Bogra, in the Rajshahi division of northern Bangladesh. © ILO/Alan Dow/BMET
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Friends of the Earth at the Anti-austerity march organised by the People’s Assembly Against Austerity, London 20 June 2015.
Starting at the Bank of England tens of thousands of people marched through London to Parliament Square. The organisers claimed up to 250,000 people took part, but the number's not confirmed.
Bangkok city gardeners at work in the Rama IX Park, the largest park in the city. © ILO/ Thierry Falise
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The Greener Business Asia (GBA) project, under the ILO/Japan Multi-bilateral Programme, assists enterprises in fulfilling their role as driving forces towards the shift towards more equitable and sustainable economies. The project aims at strengthening support systems for enterprises to undertake process of bottom-up improvement through mechanisms of worker-employer cooperation. A set of practical tools and training programs for enterprises and service providers have been developed and delivered in the hotel and manufacturing sectors. Participating enterprises have secured gains in resource productivity and general environmental management, better workplace conditions, including Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), and overall competitiveness.
Read more on our Green Jobs Community of Practice: apgreenjobs.ilo.org/project/greener-business-asia
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Solar homes system servicing trainee Shahida Khatoon receives training in assembling solar panels as part of the ILO Green Jobs Project in Bangladesh. Photo taken in the rural town of Bogra in the Rajshahi division of northern Bangladesh.
Improving access to technical and vocational skills development for women in non-traditional trades is slowly working towards removing the prevalent gender stereotyping and occupational segregation which has existed for many years. © ILO / A. Dow
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The department tracks hypoxia (or the dissolved oxygen conditions) in the Chesapeake Bay throughout the summer during twice monthly monitoring cruises.
by Stephen Badger | Office of Communications, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Wildlife biologists tag brown pelicans to track and better understand migratory and behavior habits. If a band is found, it can be reported at www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/bblretrv/
by Stephen Badger | Office of Communications, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Maryland Forest Service staff provides St. Mary's County vocational students instruction and hands-on experience with the department's portable saw mill.
Climate activists held a picket outside the ministerial offices of Peter Batchelor, Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, at 1 Spring Street, Melbourne highlighting his attendance at a $3000 a head Victorian Coal and Energy Conference meeting at Taralgon in the La Trobe Valley and the Brumby Government's continued in-action on climate change and support for the coal and fossil fuel industry at the expense of developing the renewable energy industry.
Madeline told the crowd:
"Our Federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has decided that Muckaty is the designated spot, the site for the national radioactive waste dump. This is in the Northern Territory 120km north of Tennant Creek."
"Now this decision is a politically based decision. It is not based on science, environmental or ethical considerations. It is another example of exploiting an already disenfranchised and minority group in our society."
"In effect, just like the Irati Wanti campaign, which was a campaign against a radioactive waste dump that was proposed back in the late 90s and we successfully won that in 2004. The senior women elder, Coober Pedy women, they opposed that waste dump and with the support now to get behind the people from Muckaty up in the Northern Territory. We support them."
"It is highly contested. It was a deal shrouded in secrecy and under an Act that was a really heavy handed draconian Act that overides all these laws that when Labor was in opposition, they denounced."
"They said they would repeal this Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Dump that pretty much meant they could impose this waste dump on a community unwillingly, without any consensus, any transparency, and the Labor Government said they would make this a fair process."
"It is not a fair process and we have people flying up to Tennant Creek to support the Muckaty Mob up there and the growing campaign to oppose this radioactive waste dump because it is the thin edge of the wedge."
"The nuclear power industry do not want to take responsibility for their long lived high level radioactive waste."
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Flower farms as part of the local economic development in Pasuruan, East Java, under the ILO's Job Opportunities for Youth (JOY). Year: 2010
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Green City, Clean Waters Five-Year Accomplishments: As of June 1, 2016, more than 837 “Greened Acres” have been established in the city, representing a more than 1.5 billion gallon reduction in stormwater runoff and combined sewer overflows during a typical year of rainfall. Under the 2011 agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Pa. Dept. of Environmental Protection (EPA), the City was required to create 744 Greened Acres, representing a 600 million gallon per-year reduction in runoff and overflows, by June 2016.
Each Greened Acre uses green tools such rain gardens and stormwater tree planters to manage at least 27,158 gallons of runoff from hard surfaces like streets and parking lots every time an inch of rain falls in the city. In addition to filtering pollutants out of stormwater, green infrastructure sites keep excess water out of Philadelphia’s overburdened sewer system, where overflows can lead to sewage spilling into local waterways.
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Biologists from the department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service collect, measure, number and tag freshwater mussels from Deer Creek at Rocks State Park to reintroduce the species to the Patapsco River.
Participants in the Work2Live WELL program of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) work on creating resumes and writing cover letters at Civic Works in Baltimore on May 9, 2018. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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A classroom receives education in installing and servicing solar home systems at the Bogra Technical Training Centre. Bogra TTC is a public training institution in rural northern Bangladesh.
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The 2009 National Clean Energy Summit brings together high-level industry leaders, scientists, policy experts, and public officials, along with citizens and the media, will gather in Nevada for a day-long summit hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This year’s summit will bring together the nation’s top minds including former President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, energy executive T. Boone Pickens, White House Council on Environmental Quality Special Advisor Van Jones, Nevada State AFL-CIO executive Danny Thompson, and many others to chart a course for our nation's clean energy future.
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Installation of a residential wind turbine is filmed for an episode of the DIY network show "This New House". Bob Hayes of Prevailing Winds and his crew install a Dyocore SolAir 800 I wind turbine which integrates two small solar panels into its design and is capable of producing up to 800 Watts at 12 mph. The two solar panels produce up to 45watts. Redondo Beach, Ca, USA
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Trimming out the dead from a successful tree seedling in a shelter
More Embarrassed about Canada's Climate Policy
Canada Government is failing to meet any green house gas targets. They are stalling at the inter-governmental meetings throughout the word and are causing huge cock-blocks. The most important meeting for climate change agreements between the nations on Earth is in 14 days in Copenhagen and over government said they would do very little to help our future. We want change and we want it now. Our clean future is our right and we want it now!
Climate activists held a picket outside the ministerial offices of Peter Batchelor, Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, at 1 Spring Street, Melbourne highlighting his attendance at a $3000 a head Victorian Coal and Energy Conference meeting at Taralgon in the La Trobe Valley and the Brumby Government's continued in-action on climate change and support for the coal and fossil fuel industry at the expense of developing the renewable energy industry.
Peter Marshal attended representing the United Firefighters Union, the members of which are facing increasing risks from more intense and more frequent natural disasters as a result of climate change and global warming.
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I am here representing our 2000 members across Victoria today, in the MFB and CFA, who once again as Jasmine mentioned, dealt with more than 12 months ago now, one of the worst natural disasters this State has ever seen: Black Saturday.
You hear in the mainstream media the fact that the climate change fringe groups are just that - they are fringe groups - they are a minority of extremists. Well I'm here to say that is not true! We know that is not true! And the real extremists in this country are the politicians and corporate interests who would do nothing in the face of potential apocalypse, or at least one of th worst ecological and economic disasters our species has ever seen.
It's an issue that doesn't just affect trees and bugs and animals, it affects working people, like the police here today and members of the police association, like the members of my union the United Firefighters Union and all workers in Victoria. It is an issue that is widely important and that crosses the normal political boundaries. It has universal appeal.
In fact our union was so concerned about the effects of climate change on our members that we put members money into commissioning a University of Sydney research paper on the effects climate change would have on bushfires and other natural disasters. It actually found that there was severe or significant impacts on the kind of fires our members fight everyday.
In places like Mildura the report found that extreme fire days could increase up to one third of the year, up to 90 days a year. Which of course is hugely concerning for the 2000 firefighters that have to deal with natural disasters. The question for Mr Batchelor, for Mr Brumby and Mr Rudd, and I say this as a staffer of a union that has been affiliated to the Labor party for over 100 years almost, is are you prepared to increase the risk on working people in this state, particularly firefighters, but also threaten the future of future generations.
I'd like to on behalf of our members support you and express solidarity from the union movement and also encourage other unionists to support the climate movement and the movement for climate action.
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