What is its objective?

The Durban conference will be held from 28 November to 9 December 2011. It is the annual meeting of representatives of the countries that have ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. On this occasion, the heads of State and government will renegotiate an international climate agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012. One hundred seventy countries will send representatives of their government.

What are the challenges?

There are multiple challenges:

• Reducing CO2 emissions within the framework of climate change. If we hope to succeed, we will need global regulatory instruments, new investments and new social negotiations. Otherwise, markets will continue to grow primarily on a financial basis.
• Taking the employment problem on board by ensuring the possibility of real occupational social transitions, building on the one hand on the social partners and, on the other, on information and participation of workers in decision-making processes.
  
  

The ETUC participates in the Durban COP17 Summit

 New leaflet “Climate Change Negotiation : ETUC resolution on EU position at Durban COP17, (2011)

 ETUC Conference "Energy efficiency: reducing energy consumption through worker engagement" on 5 December 2011 in Durban : http://www.etuc.org/a/9329

 Leaflet “On a sustainable New Deal for Europe and towards Cancun”(2010)

 Leaflet "The climate change, the industrial policies and the ways out of the crisis", (2009)