Making cities greener and advancing social inclusion can go hand in hand. The green economy is an important source of new employment opportunities and a sector which has continued to grow in spite of the economic crisis.
On 20 October 2015, EUROCITIES will be hosting a workshop on ‘Green jobs for social inclusion’ to explore how to facilitate access of vulnerable groups to employment opportunities in the growing green economy.
Speakers will include:
This forum will explore the state of the art and policy applications in sustainable urban development, drawing on the expertise of the leading experts in the field. With a clear interdisciplinary and sustainable development focus, the forum will bring together practitioners, experts and policy makers form range of disciplines: regenerative cities, sustainable urbanism, renewable energy, sustainable transport, ecological economics, environmental sciences, geography, architecture, psychology, complex systems theory, etc.
The Forum will examine how to foster the "next industrial revolution" by harnessing the potential of systems innovation policies that support green growth.
The 1st Global Forum on Green Economy Learning will bring together policy-makers, development partners, as well as representatives from education and training institutions, NGOs and business associations to identify opportunities for scaling-up green economy learning.
This event is organized by the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) in collaboration with the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training.
In recent years, and in the face of numerous interconnected global economic, climate and food crises, the concept of a green economy has been at the centre of policy and academic debates. At the EU level, a number of policy initiatives, including the EU 2020 strategy, the Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe and the 7th Environment Action Programme, have proposed measures to put the EU economy on a sustainable trajectory. In response to international and EU commitments, EU member states have also adopted strategies and programmes aimed at contributing to a greener development pathway.
Carbon-Cap Stakeholder Workshop
Whereas some countries have been able to reduce emissions at the production level, they have in some cases increased them at the consumption level through imports of carbon embodied in internationally traded goods and services. As a result, for some countries total emissions remain unchanged or have even increased. Therefore, it is necessary to account for emissions occurring through consumption and explore policies for addressing such emissions.