All around the world climate change, policies to respond to it, and the related economic restructuring have deep implications for jobs. In fact, the social and employment outcomes of climate-related policies are vitally important to people around the world and can have far reaching implications for elections, international climate agreements and sustainable development strategies. The ILO initiated the Green Jobs Assessment Institutions Network (GAIN) in 2012 to support development of training tools that enhance the capacity of national institutions to build country-specific green employment projection models.
This training guidebook has been produced to serve that purpose. The main intended audiences of the training guidebook are policy-makers (Module 1) and statisticians, analysts and researchers (Modules 2–4) in ministries of finance, planning, labour and environment, national statistics offices, employers’ and workers’ organizations, research institutions and universities, and international organizations. Through the GAIN network and this training guidebook, countries, in partnership with ILO, can establish national technical working groups able to guide the building of the models and the analysis of alternative policy scenarios. Module 1 (Policy) is geared to policy-makers and social partners. Module 2 (Statistics) is geared to statisticians but also to researchers and economic modellers, who are the also the intended audiences of Module 3 (Input–output) and Module 4 (Social accounting matrixes).