BGA Promotes Green Jobs at UN Conference

 

Amid growing global economic, energy and climate crises, the Blue Green Alliance is spotlighting the value of a “green recovery” for the United States at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), December 1–12, in Poznań, Poland.

Read the Associated Press article about the partnership between U.S. unions and environmental organizations.

Read the release, check out the BGA newsletter on a "Green Recovery," and David Foster's columns on the labor-environmental partnership and the UN Conference on Huffington Post.

Watch the web cast of BGA partners discussing green jobs strategies at the Conference.

The BGA Action Fund also put out a newsletter on EFCA in Poland. Read it here.

  

 

Al Gore's Challenge: 100 Percent Carbon-Free in 10 Years

 

Former Vice President Al Gore challenged the nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from carbon-free sources within 10 years. Watch the video here.

The Blue Green Alliance welcomed Vice President Gore's challenge. Read the release here.

On Labor Day, USW International President Leo Gerard and Alliance for Climate Protection CEO Cathy Zoi said it's time to repower America's workers.  

 

What is a green job? 

The We Campaign shows green workers from all over the country. Read more about them here.

BGA Executive Director Dave Foster said in a Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial that global-warming solutions can create green jobs here at home. Read it here. 

 

 

 

 

 

The U.S. can create two million jobs and reduce the unemployment rate to 4.4 percent over two years by investing in the green economy. The report, released by the Center for American Progress and authored by the PERI at UMass, outlined a green recovery program investing in six global-warming solutions.

Read the report and read job-creation numbers for 34 states. Read a press release on the report from the Blue Green Alliance. 

 

2009 Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference

 

The 2009 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference
will be held February 4 – 6 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
in Washington, D.C. Register today at www.greenjobsconference.org.

 

Blue Green Alliance Continues to Grow with SEIU, LIUNA

As the economic crisis grows, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) announced today that they are joining the Blue Green Alliance. The Alliance is a growing labor-environmental partnership to mobilize the nation to transform the U.S. economy by investing in clean energy and other global warming solutions. Read the release.

 

"Green Recovery" Should Define Future

On November 6, the Blue Green Alliance said green jobs were a defining issue in the 2008 elections. The national partnership between labor unions and environmental organizations also said that the U.S. should move forward with a “green recovery” to create jobs, increase energy independence and reduce global warming pollution. Read the press release here. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Report: Job Opportunities for the Green Economy

Job Opportunities for the Green Economy: A State-by-State Picture of Occupations that Gain from Green Investments, a report released in June from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, examines 12 states and the people employed in occupations affected by six green economic strategies: building retrofitting, mass transit, energy-efficient automobiles, wind power, solar power and cellulosic biofuels.

Sponsored by NRDC as part of the Green Jobs for America campaign, the report shows millions of U.S. workers will benefit from a movement to defeat global warming and transform the United States into a green economy. Download the report, read the press release and state fact sheets.