FROM JOBS TO GREEN JOBS

Transition Imperatives

CYNTHIA R. CRUZInstitute for Labor Studies

Quick agenda

• What are green jobs?

• Where will these jobs come form?

• What are the governance imperatives as we transition from jobs to green jobs?

Green

Job

Renewal . Self-Control,. Harmony . Love . Empathy, Compassion. Safety. Resurrection. Regeneration. Paradise . Eternal Life .Royalty. Virtue. Beauty. Hope. Honor. Resurrection .Regeneration. Love. Fertility . Knowledge. Environment.

Money

Green JobDOING GOOD AND DOING WELL

The mind is not (automatically) green

Catastrophicrisk

Episodic risk

Slow-acting risk

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION & MITIGATION

TRANSITIONAL RESETTLEMENT & RECONSTRUCTION

DISASTER RISK REDUCTION & MANAGEMENT

From Movements To Markets

Just Transition imperatives

May require firm political action

1. Getting the indicators right

DOLE initiative

Green Jobs Mapping Project

2.Getting the incentives right

Agriculture/Agribusiness and

Fishery

Manufactured Products Infrastructure

Business Process Outsourcing

Creative industries Strategic Activities

Green Projects

Disaster Prevention,

Mitigation and Recovery Projects

Research and Development and

Innovation

IPP preferred areas of activities

DOLE initiative

Labor Market Efficiency The WEF Competitiveness Index

3.Getting the regulations right

Robust environmental regulatory framework

PD 1151 PD 1152 PD 705 PD 1586

RA 6969 RA 7586 RA 9275 RA 8371

RA 8749 RA 9003 RA 9367 RA 9512

RA 9513 RA 9729 RA 10068 Etc.

DOLE initiative

Greener Business Asia

4.Getting the adjustment measures right

Transition effects

Jobs created

Jobseliminated

Jobs redefined

DOLE initiativeEfficiency Enhancing•Greening Enterprises•Greening Workplaces•Greening Skills

Risk Reducing•Emergency Employment

Program

Key takeaways

• A green job is an activity that combines the elements of doing good and doing well

• Green jobs will come from investments in climate related risk reduction solutions

• Governance imperatives in the transition from jobs to green jobs involve getting the following policy elements right : indicators, incentives, regulations, transition adjustment measures

Interlocking elements of a green job

Environmental

Economic

Social

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‘” We need to think of “green” as a verb, not an adjective . “

D.Goleman