🌍✊ Big win for #ClimateJustice & workers! The new Belém Action Mechanism #BAM gives workers, unions, women & communities a seat at the UNFCCC table—for the first time ever. Labour rights, social dialogue, collective bargaining & universal social protection are vital to bold, fair #ClimateAction.

🗣️ “#COP30 must make a real shift: ✅ Put labour rights at the core ✅ Guarantee social protection for all ✅ Ensure social dialogue with unions We need a seat at the table to protect jobs & livelihoods. That’s why we’re calling for a Belém Action Mechanism” @bertdewel.bsky.social #BAM #JustTransition

What are trade unions calling for at #COP30? The JET-CR Knowledge Hub, caught up with @bertdewel.bsky.social, @ituc.bsky.social, to discuss how a Belém Action Mechanism (BAM) can underpin the Just Transition Work Programme. Learn more 👉 www.jetknowledge.org/news/just-tr...

🌍✊ Week 1 of #COP30 in Belém: the union movement’s delegation has been hard at work for climate action with justice. 💚 good green jobs 💰 more public finance for emissions cuts + adaptation ⚡ faster, deeper emission reductions 🤝 #JustTransition for everyone ITUC #COP30 demands ➡️ buff.ly/BD9UGXQ

10 years after Paris — Europe’s biggest diplomatic win — EU risks showing up at #COP30 with words, not leadership. Europe can still act: → Support a Just Transition Mechanism → Back tripling adaptation finance by 2030 Not new ambitions — just what’s needed for credibility! tinyurl.com/ys2eknef

9️⃣ Tasneem: Let’s institutionalise support for national #JustTransition plans - real cooperation, real resources. Governments agreed to transition away from fossil fuels at COP28. That means real plans in NDCs - not just energy, but food systems too. Justice must shape it all.” #BAM

🌍✊ Trade Unions at #PreCOP2025 in Brasília: Workers demand a #JustTransition COP30! 💼 Quality green jobs ⚖️ Climate justice & equity 💰 $1.3T climate finance with no added debt 📣It’s time to move from promises to action. 📰Read the ITUC Demands for #COP30: bit.ly/4nM1Sv2

Unions have climate solutions! Powerful Just transition actions from South Africa presented by Boitumelo Molete (COSATU), Eche Asuzu (NLC), Mansi Shaw (SEWA) and Rosalina Amorim (CUT), shared by Kaira Reece (TUCA). We're ready for COP30. Unions are central for the implementation of climate policies.

Saudi Arabia bans protests. Migrant workers who tried to denounce labour abuses on solar projects were deported. buff.ly/A3QMDJv

Less than 1 out of 5 renewable energy bosses is a women. A shame. The energy transition needs to be gender inclusive! #JustTransition www.irena.org/Publications...

🚨 HAPPENING TODAY! 🌍 It’s World Day for Decent Work – and we’re going LIVE at 13:30 CEST! Join workers from around the world as we stand up for: 🗳️ Democracy ⚖️ Social Justice 💼 Prosperity for All Don’t miss this important conversation. 🎟️ Still time to register: buff.ly/EwL9xFW #WDDW2025

Paapa Danquah, speaking for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), described strikes as a timeless expression of collective action. “Strike action has been our vital tool … to improve labour conditions and to defend our human dignities". news.un.org/en/story/202...

Workers on Saudi renewable projects were forced to pay $1,600 recruitment fees before being subjected to abusive conditions, a new report says. buff.ly/A3QMDJv

📢 This October, the call is #ForDemocracy to benefit everyone, not just elites. The #NewSocialContract demands: 🔶Stop corporate capture 🔶Enforce rights 🔶Invest in care 🔶Make democracy work for people, not profit EN buff.ly/hR3ZUEJ ES buff.ly/RVAeLwx FR buff.ly/Pxnsmjq

🎥Building Power and Democracy at Work with #MigrantWorkers 🗣️ “Migrant workers are indispensable to the global economy, yet their basic rights — especially the right to freedom of association & collective bargaining — are often denied.” Irem Arf @ituc.bsky.social 📺 buff.ly/IsNjEoo 📰 buff.ly/c685VGz

🚨 Gaza Update: ITUC urgently calls for sustainable peace and the immediate release of the Global Sumud Flotilla participants 🚢🕊️. 🔗https://buff.ly/iYAgiGt #SailToGaza #TradeUnionsForPeace #ForDemocracy #Solidarity

💣 $2.72 trillion. That’s what the world spent on weapons in 2024 📉 While schools, hospitals & essential services are underfunded. 🕊️ 80 years after Hiroshima & Nagasaki, we don’t need more bombs — we need a global #nuclearban 🗞️ @equaltimes.bsky.social: www.ituc-csi.org/Eighty-years...

🌍 80yrs since Hiroshima & Nagasaki — Never again 💣 200,000 lives lost. The nuclear threat still looms ✊ Trade unions say: invest in people, not war 📝 Sign RENGO’s #nuclearban petition: www.jtuc-rengo.or.jp/activity/kiz... 📢 Support ITUC call for peace & democracy: www.ituc-csi.org/global-call-...

🌍 Join us July 28, 13:30 CEST for a global call to action on peace, disarmament & justice. With @ituc.bsky.social @greenpeace.org @oxfaminternational.bsky.social @350.org @nuclearban.bsky.social @intpeacebureau.bsky.social 💬 Defend democracy. Challenge inequality. Build peace. 🔗 bit.ly/4lBGPu7

🌍 BREAKING: Climate impunity ends today - by order of the world’s highest court. The International Court of Justice has spoken: ✅ States are legally obliged to act ✅ Inaction = human rights violation ✅ Polluters must be held accountable This is a legal revolution for our planet.

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice. 🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

This is SO important. The International Court of Justice affirms that the failure to phase out #FossilFuels can constitute an internationally wrongful act, giving way to #ClimateReparations for related harm. 🔥 Truly a new dawn for climate action and accountability. ⚖️ #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

Important piece in the guardian that quotes our work on how the petrochemical historical bloc seeks to derail a UN global plastics treaty @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

OPINION | by @bertdewel.bsky.social & Boitumelo Molete (COSATU) #JustTransition #TradeUnion #COP30 #UNFCCC #SB62 #ClimateJustice #WorkersRights #NDCs #ClimateAction @ituc.bsky.social equaltimes.org/workers-want...

CONFIRMED by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Worker voices are essential to determining global efforts that address the climate crisis 🌍 Solidarity Center's @ilawnetwork.bsky.social was instrumental in ensuring workers were considered in landmark opinion. More here 🔗 sclinks.co/3GCnGZw

Historic Climate Ruling: Workers’ Rights Must Be at the Center of Climate Response, Says Inter-American Court www.solidaritycenter.org/historic-cli...

🌍 The #BonnClimateConference closed with a powerful call from trade unions: 💬 “Whether you’re in the Global North or the Global South, your workers are depending on you to deliver a #JustTransition.” #BelémCOP30 #ClimateAction

👀 Ojo a nuestro primer reel desde la #SB62 de Bonn con @bertdewel.bsky.social, de @ituc.bsky.social, representando a nuestras compañeras sindicales @ccoo.bsky.social y @ugtenverde.bsky.social 🌱 #justiciaclimática #alianzaporelclima #cop30 #transiciónjustaYA #justtransitionrising

🌍 At today’s IEA Labour Council, Luc Triangle stressed: “Workers are among the first to feel the climate crisis.” The new IEA report calls for good jobs & strong social dialogue to drive a just energy transition. 🔗 www.iea.org/news/iea-lab...

LobbyControl reveals that a new German organisation that attacks NGOs and their funding was set up by PR consultants and #lobbyists from the biotech and chemical industries 🚨 Founders of "Initiative Transparente Demokratie" work for or have worked for #Bayer #CEFIC + biotech and #tobacco industry ⚠️

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

Global trade unions have filed a complaint against #SaudiArabia at the UN's @ilo.org #ILC2025, citing severe abuses of migrant workers—including wage theft, passport confiscation & debt bondage. According to the #RightsIndex25, Saudi Arabia is rated 5 - “no guarantee of rights”.

🗣️ “From India to Argentina, a billionaire coup is undermining democracy and criminalizing unions. But workers have the power to #TakeBackDemocracy and lead a #JustTransition written by and for working people.” Todd Brogan @organise.bsky.social ✊

🔧 "Labour rights are a toolbox for social justice. If you allow unions, if you organize collective bargaining, if you enable social dialogue — that’s how we negotiate justice." – Bert De Wel, ITUC 🌍✊ @bertdewel.bsky.social #JustTransition #ClimateJustice #LabourRights #SocialDialogue

Just Transition Rising : Join us tomorrow for a second day of powerful debates on why and how a Just Transition will deliver Climate action! 💪👷🏿‍♀️👩‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👨‍👧‍👦🌳🐟 @ituc.bsky.social @canclimateaction.bsky.social

💬 Eric Manzi lors de #JustTransition Rising nous rappelle ce qui est en jeu : « Le climat est et a toujours été une “crise de justice”. Nous ne résoudrons jamais la crise climatique si nous ne nous attaquons pas aux immenses injustices qui y sont liées. » 🌍✊

🎙️ Powerful words from Corinna Zierold of @industrialleurope.bsky.social at #JustTransition Rising: "Driving our decarbonisation in Europe on the shoulders of the developing countries will not solve the climate crisis." 🌍⚖️ #ClimateJustice means global fairness — not shifting the burden.

Comenzamos con el economista ecológico @bertdewel.bsky.social, representante de la Confederación Sindical Internacional: "Podemos ganar solidaridad a través del trabajo en coalición"

Hoy compartimos espacio con: Elena Pita, directora de la OECC 🏛️ y @bertdewel.bsky.social, de la Confederación Internacional de Sindicatos 🌐 #UGTenVERDE

Make Just Transition happen for all @ Just Transition Rising, a great online gathering happening on the 14-15 May bringing together union leaders, grassroots organisers, campaigners, and policy advocates to explore how justice can be placed at the heart of climate action. tinyurl.com/JustTransiti...

The 'State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples' report exposes a stark imbalance: while Indigenous Peoples make up 6% of the global population, they safeguard 80% of the planet’s remaining biodiversity – yet receive less than one per cent of international climate funding. news.un.org/en/story/202...

The 2025 Death on the Job report released today tracks workers’ fatality rates, injuries, safety inspections,and more. This report shows where worker protections are failing and why we can’t roll back the rules and agencies that keep us safe.

🚨 Global development aid is failing when it’s needed most. 🔻 In 2024, rich countries gave 0.33% —far below the 0.7% promise 🔻 Aid to the world’s poorest countries was just 0.05% of rich nations’ income—they promised 0.15% 🔻 Humanitarian assistance fell 10% www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-demands...

Today the Petersberg Climate Dialogue started in Berlin 🇩🇪. It's hopeful to see the commitment to the #ParisAgreement by so many countries. @ituc.bsky.social is here asking for a #JustTransition for all #workers and their communities. @cop30amazonia.bsky.social @climatemorgan.bsky.social

No-brainer: "higher social protection expenditure is associated with lower income inequality" www.ilo.org/resource/new...

The hearings of the climate case #SaulvsRWE just ended in Hamm🇩🇪. By reaffirming the #PolluterPays principle, the Court shifted the legal dial, not just in Germany but worldwide: the era of holding major polluters accountable for climate harms has begun: www.ciel.org/news/rwe-vs-...