Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fourth Assessment Report, at 52 [IPCC].
International Labour Organization, Employment Working Paper No. 104: Towards an ILO Approach to Climate
Change Adaptation, (2011) at 22 [ILO Approch].
130 Ibid at 18.
131 IPCC, supra note 128 at 53.
132 Samual Fankhauser, Friedel Sehlleier & Nicholas Stern, “Climate Change, Innovation and Jobs” (2008) 8
Climate Policy 421 at 424.
133 Global Climate Network and the Centre for American Progress, Low Carbon Jobs in an Inter-Connected World
(London, 2009) at 4, 12.
134 Ibid at para 31.
135 United Nations Environment Programme, Green jobs: towards decent work in sustainable, low-carbon world,
(Geneva: UNEP, 2008) at 43 [Green Jobs]. See also ILO Committee on Employment and Social Policy,
Employment and Labour Market Implications of Climate Change, 303rd Sess, GB303/ESP/4, (November 2008) at
paras 16-22.
136 European Trade Union Confederation et al, Climate Change and employment: Impact on employment in the European
Union-25 of climate change and CO2 emission reduction measures by 2030, (2007) at 37; ILO Committee on
Employment and Social Policy, Employment and Labour Market Implications of Climate Change, 303rd Sess,
GB303/ESP/4, (November 2008) at paras 10, 12, 13; Ana Belén Sanchez & Peter Poschen, “The social and
decent work dimensions of a new Agreement on Climate Change: A Technical Brief” (2009) (International
Labour Organization, Policy Integration Department) at 11; United Nations Environment Programme, Labour
and the Environment: A Natural Synergy (Nairobi: UNEP, 2007) n 53 at 6 [Labour and the Environment].
137 Jenny Bird & Kayte Lawton, “The Future’s Green: Jobs and the U.K. low-carbon transition” (2009)
(Institute for Public Policy Research) at 6.
138 HM Government, Department for Business Innovation and Skills, Department of Energy and Climate
Change, The UK Low Carbon Industrial Strategy (2009) [The UK Low Carbon Industrial Strategy].
139 See also The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan, the UK Renewable Energy Strategy and the Carbon Reduction Strategy
for Transport.
140 The UK Low Carbon Industrial Strategy, supra note 135 at 5.
141 Ibid.
142 Excerpted from: ILO Approach, supra note 131 at 45.
143 Work in a Warming World Research Programme, What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know? The State of
Research on Work, Employment and Climate Change in Canada (2010) at 18.
144 ILO Approach, supra note 131 at 49.
145 CESCR, Day of General Discussion: The Right to Social Security (article 9 of the Covenant), UN Doc
E/2007/22/CRP.3, (15 May 2006) at para 5 (comment made by Mr. Alessio Bruni, Team Leader of the Treaty
Implementation and Follow-up Team I at the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights).
146 For international instruments, see e.g International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (ICERD), Article 5 (e) (iv); Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
Article 11, para 1 (e), 2(c), 14; Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 26. For regional instruments, see
American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, Article XVI; Additional Protocol to the American Convention on
Human Rights in the Area of Economic Social and Cultural Rights (Protocol of San Salvador), Article 9; European Social
Charter (and 1996 revised version), Articles 1, 12, 13.
147 CESCR, General Comment No 19: The right to social security (Art. 9 of the Covenant), UN Doc E/C.12/GC/19, (4
February 2008) at para 4 [General Comment No 19].
148 Ibid at para 2.
149 Ibid at para 4.
150 Ibid at para 22.
151Ibid at para 10.
152 Ibid at para 10.
153 Ibid at para 10.
154 Ibid at para 23.
155 Ibid at para 24.
156 Ibid at para 25
157 Ibid at para 26.
158 Ibid at para 27.
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