This resource identifies how policies, investment, enterprises, employers’ and workers’ organisations, and consumers can work towards a sustainable green recovery. It summarises the resources offered by the ILO to advance decent work, social justice, and environmental sustainability simultaneously.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Blue Economy: New challenges and prospects for recovery and resilience
Blue economy sectors such as travel, tourism, maritime transport, fisheries, and seafood production have been heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This report calls for response measures to include support to small-scale fishers, many of whom are self-employed and don’t have income or health insurance.
This report reveals that chemical recycling is polluting, energy intensive, and has a track record of technical failures, and concludes that it is impossible for chemical recycling to be a viable solution in the short window of time left to solve the plastic problem, especially at the scale needed.
This technical note tests a novel data collection approach that relies on crowdsourcing data from multinational enterprises with operations across many geographies. This is eventually intended to allow effective response to water crises, providing empirical, comparable, global information on the state of public water management.
This paper presents an argument that a Green and Just recovery is the only truly resilient option for Africa that directly addresses the key challenges surfaced by the pandemic and offers an opportunity for sustainable growth.