2017 - Mainstreaming green job issues into national employment policies and implementation plans:

Environmental sustainability and the ILO – a short history The above facets of the labour market have become much better understood since the publication of the seminal report on green jobs in 2008.17 It took time, however, before environmental sustainability was fully embraced by the constituents and reflected in the work of the Office. [...] The policy debate on the environment and the world of work was taken up in earnest with the Director-General’s report to the 2007 ILC, Decent work for sustainable development.21 In the report, the Director-General proposed a programme of work to “promote a socially just transition to green jobs”. [...] In parallel to the growing number of knowledge products, policy guidelines and intensive capacity-building programmes developed through the expanding green jobs network across the Office, ILO constituents became increasingly engaged in policy discussions at the Governing Body about the ILO’s role and contribution to the sustainability agenda in the lead-up to the Rio+20 Conference. [...] The inclusion of a dedicated green jobs module in the Comprehensive Employment Policy Framework and a related training session in the annual training course held at the International Training Centre (ITC) in Turin has further contributed to the internalization of the link between employment and the environment among constituents. [...] This includes the following statement: “As Barbados seeks to restructure its economy and to mitigate and adapt to the changing climate while in the search to maintain a sustainable environment, one of the premier emphases of the country has been to embrace the concept of a ‘Green Economy’.