International Labor Union Calling for 'Just Transition' to Greener Economy. By Alister Doyle, Reuters, August 18, 2009. "More jobs could be created than are lost if governments are serious about promoting a switch from fossil fuels to a low-carbon economy, said Guy Ryder, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)... The Brussels-based ITUC, which says it represents 168 million workers in 155 countries, wants the new U.N. pact due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December to ensure a 'just transition' for workers to a greener economy. 'Copenhagen cannot simply be about the environment with the exclusion of social and employment questions,' Ryder said on the sidelines of a climate seminar in Oslo. Ryder said the ITUC supported cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 of 25 to 40% from 1990 levels for developed nations, which a U.N. panel of climate scientists has said would avert the worst effects of climate change."
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