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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🌍 Trade unions voice disappointment at the close of the UN Climate Conference in Bonn. Negotiations overlooked crucial #JustTransition, adaptation and mitigation priorities, putting jobs and climate resilience at risk. The road to #COP31 must deliver for workers. ✊🌱
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 02/03/2026
So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms.  But we will not be silenced. www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
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What a US$ 345 million judgment means for Greenpeace - Greenpeace International
A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay US$ 345 million.
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
🤔 Negotiating alone? That’s playing on hard mode. 🎙️In EP3, Monica Tepfer @ituc.bsky.social, explains how #CollectiveBargaining turns “pretty please” into demands employers have to take seriously. This is how workers go from hoping for change… to making it happen. 🎧 buff.ly/yEXDa8l
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International Energy Agency @iea.org · 06/02/2026
🎧 Our latest Everything Energy podcast episode is out! Listen as IEA’s Elspeth Hathaway & Rebecca Ruff examine what’s driving the surge in energy jobs & challenges that could undermine future momentum. Apple Podcasts: iea.li/4echhAF Spotify: iea.li/3Gc1tkP
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🧵✊ Garment workers need a #JustTransition! Join us for the launch of the Trade Union Just Transition Manifesto for the Textile and Garment Supply Chain at the OECD Forum on Due Diligence. 📅 February 10, 2026 🕚 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM CET 👉 Register here: buff.ly/YzdgSlg
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Two things to learn from this. 1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors. 2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
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Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time - Carbon Brief
Nearly 100 UK newspaper editorials opposed climate action in 2025, a record figure that reveals the backlash against net-zero in the right-leaning press
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🧵 5/5 🗣️ “We need strong unions, fair taxes, and worker power to reclaim democracy.” @luctriangle.bsky.social ITUC General Secretary 🔗Find out more: buff.ly/4QOQoGt #ForDemocracy #wef26
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🧵 1/5 - The Billionaire Boom 💥 We are witnessing a billionaire coup against democracy. @oxfaminternational.bsky.social’s new report "Resisting the Rule of the Rich" exposes how wealth is skyrocketing while democracy is shrinking. 🔗Find out more: buff.ly/4QOQoGt #ForDemocracy #wef26
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Bert De Wel @bertdewel.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Another typical high-level event at #UNEA7 on environmental, industrial and social risks of critical minerals. Only governments, business and youth at the table.👎 No workers that actually are bearing the social and industrial risks. @unep.org #OHCHR @ec.europa.eu @brsconventions.bsky.social
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Bert De Wel @bertdewel.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Today at the UN Environment Assembly #UNEA7 in Nairobi. Rebecca Okello expresses profound concern about the complete absence of any mention in the negotiations of workers’ fundamental rights, #DecentWork, occupational safety and health #OHS. @ituc.bsky.social
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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 05/12/2025
The IEA warns that a slow shift away from fossil fuels would leave the world with 1.3 million fewer energy jobs by 2035.
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IEA: Slow energy transition would cost millions of jobs
A rapid transition would create enough new green roles to more than offset job losses in coal mines, power plants and oil and gas fields, a report found
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
📊 Energy jobs are growing — but quality matters. 🗣️ “New energy jobs must be good jobs: decent pay, conditions & union rights. Skills matter, but decent work comes first. It’s what attracts skilled workers.” @bertdewel.bsky.social 🔗 @iea.org : www.iea.org/news/energy-... #JustTransition
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International Energy Agency @iea.org · 04/12/2025
World Energy Employment 2025 comes out Friday! It offers a comprehensive look at the global energy workforce today and outlines future prospect & risks – such as emerging job opportunities and growing labour & skills shortages. Watch the LIVE launch 👉 iea.li/4pO2919
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🌍✊ Big win for #ClimateJustice & workers! The new Belém Action Mechanism #BAM gives workers, unions, women & communities a seat at the UNFCCC table—for the first time ever. Labour rights, social dialogue, collective bargaining & universal social protection are vital to bold, fair #ClimateAction.
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🗣️ “#COP30 must make a real shift: ✅ Put labour rights at the core ✅ Guarantee social protection for all ✅ Ensure social dialogue with unions We need a seat at the table to protect jobs & livelihoods. That’s why we’re calling for a Belém Action Mechanism” @bertdewel.bsky.social #BAM #JustTransition
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IISD Energy @energy.iisd.org · 21/11/2025
What are trade unions calling for at #COP30? The JET-CR Knowledge Hub, caught up with @bertdewel.bsky.social, @ituc.bsky.social, to discuss how a Belém Action Mechanism (BAM) can underpin the Just Transition Work Programme. Learn more 👉 www.jetknowledge.org/news/just-tr...
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Bert De Wel @bertdewel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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CSI articula estratégia global na COP30 e reforça urgência da transição justa
Sindicalistas internacionais traçaram estratégias da Confederação Sindical Internacional para a COP30. Entidades reforçaram urgência da transição justa, lançaram o Mecanismo de Ação de Belém
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🌍✊ Week 1 of #COP30 in Belém: the union movement’s delegation has been hard at work for climate action with justice. 💚 good green jobs 💰 more public finance for emissions cuts + adaptation ⚡ faster, deeper emission reductions 🤝 #JustTransition for everyone ITUC #COP30 demands ➡️ buff.ly/BD9UGXQ
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Bert De Wel @bertdewel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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‘Without our expertise, mistakes get made’: the Cop30 campaign to give workers a voice
In this week’s newsletter: The green transition’s effect on workers is a hot topic, as advocates push for those working at the frontlines to have a say in climate policy
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Bert De Wel @bertdewel.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Only 3% of international climate aid going to transitioning communities: ‘This is absurd’
New report on funding to slash carbon emissions finds startlingly low engagement with the people affected
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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
10 years after Paris — Europe’s biggest diplomatic win — EU risks showing up at #COP30 with words, not leadership. Europe can still act: → Support a Just Transition Mechanism → Back tripling adaptation finance by 2030 Not new ambitions — just what’s needed for credibility! tinyurl.com/ys2eknef
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COP30: Council sets EU position for the climate conference in Belém
The Council today approved conclusions on COP30, reinforcing the EU's commitment to keeping 1.5°C within reach, scaling up climate finance and driving global energy transition and adaptation efforts.
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ClimateActionNetwork @canclimateaction.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
9️⃣ Tasneem: Let’s institutionalise support for national #JustTransition plans - real cooperation, real resources. Governments agreed to transition away from fossil fuels at COP28. That means real plans in NDCs - not just energy, but food systems too. Justice must shape it all.” #BAM
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🌍✊ Trade Unions at #PreCOP2025 in Brasília: Workers demand a #JustTransition COP30! 💼 Quality green jobs ⚖️ Climate justice & equity 💰 $1.3T climate finance with no added debt 📣It’s time to move from promises to action. 📰Read the ITUC Demands for #COP30: bit.ly/4nM1Sv2
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Bert De Wel @bertdewel.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Unions have climate solutions! Powerful Just transition actions from South Africa presented by Boitumelo Molete (COSATU), Eche Asuzu (NLC), Mansi Shaw (SEWA) and Rosalina Amorim (CUT), shared by Kaira Reece (TUCA). We're ready for COP30. Unions are central for the implementation of climate policies.
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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 08/10/2025
Saudi Arabia bans protests. Migrant workers who tried to denounce labour abuses on solar projects were deported. buff.ly/A3QMDJv
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Bert De Wel @bertdewel.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Less than 1 out of 5 renewable energy bosses is a women. A shame. The energy transition needs to be gender inclusive! #JustTransition www.irena.org/Publications...
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Renewable energy: A gender perspective (Second edition)
This second edition of the report, Renewable energy: A gender perspective, updates global figures and offers policy recommendations to strengthen gender equality across the energy transition.
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🚨 HAPPENING TODAY! 🌍 It’s World Day for Decent Work – and we’re going LIVE at 13:30 CEST! Join workers from around the world as we stand up for: 🗳️ Democracy ⚖️ Social Justice 💼 Prosperity for All Don’t miss this important conversation. 🎟️ Still time to register: buff.ly/EwL9xFW #WDDW2025
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Bert De Wel @bertdewel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Paapa Danquah, speaking for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), described strikes as a timeless expression of collective action. “Strike action has been our vital tool … to improve labour conditions and to defend our human dignities". news.un.org/en/story/202...
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In landmark labour case, UN World Court weighs in on right to strike
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened hearings on Monday to determine whether the right to strike is protected under international law – the first time the world’s top court has been asked t...
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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 06/10/2025
Workers on Saudi renewable projects were forced to pay $1,600 recruitment fees before being subjected to abusive conditions, a new report says. buff.ly/A3QMDJv
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
📢 This October, the call is #ForDemocracy to benefit everyone, not just elites. The #NewSocialContract demands: 🔶Stop corporate capture 🔶Enforce rights 🔶Invest in care 🔶Make democracy work for people, not profit EN buff.ly/hR3ZUEJ ES buff.ly/RVAeLwx FR buff.ly/Pxnsmjq
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🎥Building Power and Democracy at Work with #MigrantWorkers 🗣️ “Migrant workers are indispensable to the global economy, yet their basic rights — especially the right to freedom of association & collective bargaining — are often denied.” Irem Arf @ituc.bsky.social 📺 buff.ly/IsNjEoo 📰 buff.ly/c685VGz
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🚨 Gaza Update: ITUC urgently calls for sustainable peace and the immediate release of the Global Sumud Flotilla participants 🚢🕊️. 🔗https://buff.ly/iYAgiGt #SailToGaza #TradeUnionsForPeace #ForDemocracy #Solidarity
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Gaza: ITUC calls for urgent action for sustainable peace and for the release of Global Sumud Flotilla participants
The ITUC expresses deep concern over the interception by the Israeli military of the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza. “This peaceful civil society mission to deliver aid to Palestinian civilians…
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
💣 $2.72 trillion. That’s what the world spent on weapons in 2024 📉 While schools, hospitals & essential services are underfunded. 🕊️ 80 years after Hiroshima & Nagasaki, we don’t need more bombs — we need a global #nuclearban 🗞️ @equaltimes.bsky.social: www.ituc-csi.org/Eighty-years...
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🌍 80yrs since Hiroshima & Nagasaki — Never again 💣 200,000 lives lost. The nuclear threat still looms ✊ Trade unions say: invest in people, not war 📝 Sign RENGO’s #nuclearban petition: www.jtuc-rengo.or.jp/activity/kiz... 📢 Support ITUC call for peace & democracy: www.ituc-csi.org/global-call-...
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🌍 Join us July 28, 13:30 CEST for a global call to action on peace, disarmament & justice. With @ituc.bsky.social @greenpeace.org @oxfaminternational.bsky.social @350.org @nuclearban.bsky.social @intpeacebureau.bsky.social 💬 Defend democracy. Challenge inequality. Build peace. 🔗 bit.ly/4lBGPu7
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 23/07/2025
🌍 BREAKING: Climate impunity ends today - by order of the world’s highest court. The International Court of Justice has spoken: ✅ States are legally obliged to act ✅ Inaction = human rights violation ✅ Polluters must be held accountable This is a legal revolution for our planet.
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice. 🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo
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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This is SO important. The International Court of Justice affirms that the failure to phase out #FossilFuels can constitute an internationally wrongful act, giving way to #ClimateReparations for related harm. 🔥 Truly a new dawn for climate action and accountability. ⚖️ #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ
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Jack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Important piece in the guardian that quotes our work on how the petrochemical historical bloc seeks to derail a UN global plastics treaty @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks
Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet
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Equal Times @equaltimes.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
OPINION | by @bertdewel.bsky.social & Boitumelo Molete (COSATU) #JustTransition #TradeUnion #COP30 #UNFCCC #SB62 #ClimateJustice #WorkersRights #NDCs #ClimateAction @ituc.bsky.social equaltimes.org/workers-want...
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Workers want a just transition at COP30 in Belém
The UN climate negotiations that took place in Bonn this June did not bring the progress that is needed to stop the climate emergency, nor did it take the devastating impact of climate change on worke...
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The Solidarity Center @solidaritycenter.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
CONFIRMED by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Worker voices are essential to determining global efforts that address the climate crisis 🌍 Solidarity Center's @ilawnetwork.bsky.social was instrumental in ensuring workers were considered in landmark opinion. More here 🔗 sclinks.co/3GCnGZw
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Bert De Wel @bertdewel.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Historic Climate Ruling: Workers’ Rights Must Be at the Center of Climate Response, Says Inter-American Court www.solidaritycenter.org/historic-cli...
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Solidarity Center - Historic Climate Ruling: Workers’ Rights Must Be at the Center of Climate Response, Says Inter-American Court
In a groundbreaking opinion with global implications for workers and labor rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on July 3 affirmed that states have a legal obligation to protect human…
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🌍 The #BonnClimateConference closed with a powerful call from trade unions: 💬 “Whether you’re in the Global North or the Global South, your workers are depending on you to deliver a #JustTransition.” #BelémCOP30 #ClimateAction
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Alianza por el Clima @alianzaporelclima.org · 20/06/2025
👀 Ojo a nuestro primer reel desde la #SB62 de Bonn con @bertdewel.bsky.social, de @ituc.bsky.social, representando a nuestras compañeras sindicales @ccoo.bsky.social y @ugtenverde.bsky.social 🌱 #justiciaclimática #alianzaporelclima #cop30 #transiciónjustaYA #justtransitionrising
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🌍 At today’s IEA Labour Council, Luc Triangle stressed: “Workers are among the first to feel the climate crisis.” The new IEA report calls for good jobs & strong social dialogue to drive a just energy transition. 🔗 www.iea.org/news/iea-lab...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 11/06/2025
LobbyControl reveals that a new German organisation that attacks NGOs and their funding was set up by PR consultants and #lobbyists from the biotech and chemical industries 🚨 Founders of "Initiative Transparente Demokratie" work for or have worked for #Bayer #CEFIC + biotech and #tobacco industry ⚠️
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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Global trade unions have filed a complaint against #SaudiArabia at the UN's @ilo.org #ILC2025, citing severe abuses of migrant workers—including wage theft, passport confiscation & debt bondage. According to the #RightsIndex25, Saudi Arabia is rated 5 - “no guarantee of rights”.
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Trade unions take Saudi Arabia to UN labour body over exploitation and deaths of migrant workers
Workers' representatives at the 113th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) have formally filed a complaint against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, citing widespread violations of migrant ...
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🗣️ “From India to Argentina, a billionaire coup is undermining democracy and criminalizing unions. But workers have the power to #TakeBackDemocracy and lead a #JustTransition written by and for working people.” Todd Brogan @organise.bsky.social ✊
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🔧 "Labour rights are a toolbox for social justice. If you allow unions, if you organize collective bargaining, if you enable social dialogue — that’s how we negotiate justice." – Bert De Wel, ITUC 🌍✊ @bertdewel.bsky.social #JustTransition #ClimateJustice #LabourRights #SocialDialogue
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