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Green Employment Initiative

Green Employment Initiative. European Commission Communication. Radosław Owczarzak Policy Officer Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion. Outline. Background Objectives Facts and figures Green Employment Initiative Governance and partnerships

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Green Employment Initiative

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  1. Green Employment Initiative European Commission Communication Radosław Owczarzak Policy Officer Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

  2. Outline • Background • Objectives • Facts and figures • Green Employment Initiative • Governance and partnerships • Transparency, fiscal and financial incentives • Anticipating skill needs and facilitating restructuring • Awareness raising and engagement • Timeline and consultations

  3. Background • Europe 2020: strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth • Employment Package (2012): Towards a job-rich recovery • SWD (2012): Exploiting the employment potential of green growth • European Employment Observatory Review (2013): Promoting green jobs throughout the crisis: a handbook of best practices in Europe

  4. Objectives • To integrate better employment polices supporting the greening of the economy and creation of jobs with environmental, climate, energy and industrial policies • To pinpoint the most critical gaps and disseminate best practice and advise on the measures to close them

  5. Facts and figures (cautiousness) • Employment creation in the environmental goods and services sector (EGSS) – 4.2m jobs in 2011 • The greening of the most polluting industries and jobs – 15% of the EU workforce (ranging from 10.7% to 26.7%) • Workforce adaptation: Employment effects of the energy and resource efficiency transition up to (estimates of up to 5.5 million jobs by 2020) • Strategic integration of employment policies into greening (estimates of up to additional 13 million jobs by 2020)

  6. Governance and partnership in the MS • Review of the coordination between environmental, climate, energy, industrial, R&D, innovation and employment, skills and education polices • Review of the functional coordination between departments of the central government and between local, regional and national levels and of the SP and NGOs • Preparation of the integrated Green Employment Action Plans (GEAP) in the annual cycles

  7. Transparency and coordinationof fiscal and financial incentives • Transparency about costs and subsidies • Improvements in data collection on the green economy and green and greening employment • Shifting taxation from labour to environment, resource and energy use • Efficient use of available funding • Coordination between UE (earmaring of 20%) and national, public and private sources • SMEs and micro firms • Public procurement

  8. Anticipating skill needs and facilitating restructuring • Anticipating future skill needs • Changes to educational and training curricula • Quality assurance • Facilitating occupational transitions and restructuring • EU Quality framework for restructuring • Career guidance, Apprenticeships, Mobility • Long-term unemployed, social innovation, Youth Guarantee • Partnerships and networks

  9. Awareness raising and engagement • Providing reliable data on energy and resource efficiency opportunities and available technologies (investments in necessary skills to provide data and e-platforms to disseminate – AT example of klima:aktiv) • Prioritize target groups (leverage) and most promising sectors • Engagement of the Social Partners at all levels: • Inter-professional (integration of polices) • Sectoral (skills and training) • Enterprise and workplace (energy and resource efficiency initiatives) • All levels: working conditions and OSH

  10. Timeline and consultations • Inter-service feedback to the first draft by Wednesday, 29 January 2014 • Second draft distributed to inter-service group, external experts (e.g. OECD, ILO, Cedefop) and social partners on 3 February 2014 for a written feed-back by 17 February 2014 COB • Final draft agreed by 3 March 2014 COB • Publication of the Communication in May 2014.

  11. Thank you for your attention! Radosław OWCZARZAKEuropean Commission
Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and InclusionRue Joseph II, 27 (6/17)B-1000 Brussels, Belgium+32-2-29-54934radoslaw.owczarzak@ec.europa.eu

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