Thursday 23 July 11:25
- 12:55
Hall: 02 - Teatrino
Chair and Presenter:
Hopner Veronica
Discussant:
Searle Rosalind
Division: Division 1: Work and Organizational Psychology
On the 10th of January 2024, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) confirmed that for the first time since records began, the world has experienced global temperatures which exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial periods. Climate change is now escalating Earth's temperatures beyond the experience of modern humanity. Tackling climate change through promoting sustainable and decent work in both the formal and informal economies is now undeniably imperative. The ever-increasing extreme weather events are causing untold suffering and destruction and ongoing vulnerabilities, which are far-reaching and typically severe. Climate change is destroying people's livelihoods and creating realities of labour exploitation in informal economies, which damages our ecosystems and accelerates processes of climate change. Further escalating climate change is the world of work in the formal sector, which contributes the lion's share of the global carbon emissions. Climate Change impacts work, and the World of Work impacts climate change. This session examines the often neglected i-directional links between work and climate, in both the formal, and much larger but often overlooked, informal labour economies. We use supply chains in the fashion industries to plot climate change and show how indecent work can be reworked and made decent. Decent work and economic growth, the Agenda for Decent Work sits literally at the heart of all 17 of the 2016-30 United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Identifying a yawning gap in the Agenda with respect to Climate Action (SDG-13), we show how Climate Action is needed to advance the idea of decent work as ethical and functional, for people, planet, and prosperity.
