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REPORT Report on developing the job potential of a new sustainable economy PDF (368 KB) DOC (252 KB)
Amendments (39)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17
Citation 17
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
Citation 18 a (new)
– having regard to Ruhr Economic Papers 156 "Economic impacts from the Promotion of Renewable Energy Technologies, The German Experience",
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 b (new)
Citation 18 b (new)
– having regard to CEPOS publication "Wind Energy, the case of Denmark",
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 c (new)
Citation 18 c (new)
– having regard to the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos publication "Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources",
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas industrialised countries should according to the IPCC reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by 80-90% of the 1990 level by 2050,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas this change stabilises employment and, in some sectors, greatly increases the number of jobs, with considerable spill-over eff, where long-term public subsidies and other framework conditions have been introduced, a rise in jobs in the subsidised economic activities has been noted with some increase in exports of the products of the subsidised sectors; whereas, w there reliable framework conditions have been created, a constant rise in jobs can be noted, which is stabilised by increasing exportsis a need to study scientifically whether the subsidies have been optimal in increasing net employment or sustainability of the economy as a whole,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas new sectors are often not integrated in social dialogue structures; whereas no collective, such as involving production of wind energy, solar energy or energy from biomass or recirculation of materials or increasing energy efficiency, agreements or sector-specific codes exist in some Member States not integrated in social dialogue structures; whereas the newall sectors are subject to great pressure to produce and competeincrease their competitiveness; whereas, in regions with high unemployment, the pressure to accept badpoor working conditions is high,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas gender equality is an objective of the Lisbon Treaty; whereas women are in some Member States underrepresented in, for example, the construction industry and research, for example, and can therefore not profit from the increase in jobs in the green economyse sectors to the same extent as men can,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Title before paragraph 1
Title before paragraph 1
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that investments in ecological change bear grthere is a need to make production of goods and services more sustainable and that investments therein beatr potential for growth in the employment market and new income opportunities; notes that the positive balance takes lossesmay create new in scome sectors into account which are more than compensated by growth in other areaopportunities;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports the Commission's flagship initiative under the Europe 2020 strategy to make the change towards a sustainable economy now, to decouple economic growth from consumption of resources and energy, to reduce climate-damaging emissions and thus to act against global warming; welcomes the intention to align legal framework conditions, market economy incentive instruments, subsidies and public procurement with that objective; regrets that, in the strategy, the Commission omitted to address employment market potential and the challenges of change;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that most new green jobs are concentrated in certain sectors such as construction,there is potential to increase sustainability of production in all areas of production of goods and services; notes that in order to reach the 2020 goals there is a need to increase the energy efficiency of housing, the share of renewable energies, environment-friendly technologies, sustainable mobility (of transport (by bicycle, freight and passenger rail transport), recycling, cars which run on other than fossil fuels), recycling, low-resource production processes and closed-loop material cycles, sustainableility in agriculture, forestry and fishery and advice through environmental services; notes that the service sector also bears considerable green employment potential;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the adoption of the ILO's definition, according to which all jobs which promote sustainable development are greensustainable jobs; points out that the definition includes, firstly, jobs which directly reduce consumption of energy and resources, protect ecosystems and biodiversity and minimise waste production and air pollution and, secondly, all jobs which reduce the environmental footprint; recognises that, owing to the relative nature of the definition, the job potential cannot be definitively determined;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that all jobs are committed to the objective of promoting sustainable development and that production and working methods should be organised so as to be as resource, material and energy efficient as possible; stresses that this approach should apply to the entire supply chain and that there is no sense in making a separation into good and bad industries, but all industries can be made more sustainable;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the development of a European job strategy for a sustainable economy, aiming at optimising job potential whilst paying special attention to decent work, skills needs and a socially just transitionmore investment in research and development on how to make different production more sustainable; stresses that a sustainable economyility has to combines social, technological, economic and ecological objectivessustainability;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the social partners to ensure that everyone across the EU benefits from a sustainable jobs strategy; calls for attention to be focused on people furthest from the labour market,Stresses the need to pay special attention to decent work, skills needs and a socially just transition involved in moving towards more sustainable ways of production; calls to increase education and research and development opportunities and calls for the most vulnerable and low-skilled workers to be taken into account;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and Member States to determinesearch for environmental standards and financial incentives creating reliable framework conditions for at least 10 years, and thereby creating legal and planning certainty; demands that existing financial instruments should be used and that sustainable economic activity should be inserted into the financial perspective and the structural fund as a promoted objewhich help in moving towards more sustainable ways of productiveon;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the EU and the Member States to anticipate change, i.e. to overcome information failures and uncertainties and foster awareness, social learning processes and changes in consumption patterns; states that companies are more likely to invest in clean technologies only if there is some security about future benefits and that workers are more willing to face change if there is a prospect of future employment and a safety net;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recommends that if a Member State decides to subsidise, for example, the increase of wind, bio- or solar energy production that the level of subsidies is based on scientific evaluation of empirical data and that the subsidies provide reasonable investment perspectives and security to possible investors, and calls to carefully consider factors like the increase of net jobs created through subsidies, price of energy, net influence on emissions of green house gases and other pollutants, and thus to aim to optimise the increase of sustainability;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Notes that there is no uniform understanding which technological choices are environmentally, economically or socially most sustainable in the global competitive situation; notes that many variables have to be taken into account when comparing, for example, the sustainability of the production of energy using windmills, solar PV-panels, burning coal with carbon capture and storage, nuclear reactors or some other technologies; therefore calls for more scientific study on the subject comparing whole life-cycles of production and calls to make all production processes more resource-efficient;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the EU, the Member States and the social partners to fight discrimination and, to promote gender equality in a sustainable economy, create work environments that attract and retain women in these sectors,and to reduce gender- based job segmentation and wage gaps and establish a quota for women on company boards of 40%to make all economic activities more socially sustainable;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Demands that existing and new financial instruments should be used to make different economic activities more sustainable and that increasing sustainability of economic activity should be inserted into the financial perspective of various funds and the structural funds as a promoted objective;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Title before paragraph 11
Title before paragraph 11
Defending the right to decent work
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that the Commission overestimates there is a job potential for highly qualified employees in the sustainable economy, and thus loses sight of the many jobs in the middle and lower qualification bandmaking the economy more sustainable, as well as for less unskilled, but specialized workers; calls on the Member States to enhance the status of jobs in the middle and lower training bands and to ensure good working conditions in those jobs;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that, owing to the low level of organisation of employees and of employers in newsome sectors in some Members States, the risk of precarious employment relationships and badpoor working conditions is great; calls on the EU and Member States to create framework conditions for establishing representative bodies in new sectors;cannot be ruled out, and therefore calls the social partners to organise themselves and invites the Commission to promote EU- wide exchange of best practice examples;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the EU and Member States to link public aid for new production sectorsubsidies to minimum social standards and to advance the creation of representative bodies, such as works councils and trade associations, in future of the social partners;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the EU to develop a framework for anticipating change and restructuring of production, providing the guaranteed right for all affected workers to take part in training and lifelong learning schemes; calls on the Member States, employers and employees to recognise skills management, training and lifelong learning as a shared responsibility, as acknowledged in the social partners' 2002 framework agreement on lifelong learning;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Points out that the Member States must adapt their training and education systems to ensure that the workforce can adjust their skills to the labour-market needs of a more sustainable economy founded on competence-based training concepts;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Member States and social partners to establish quotas, targetedprovide equal opportunities for both men and women to education, training, recruitment schemes, specialise and apprenticeships and training initiatives for womewithout discrimination;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Recommends that the objectives of the Globalisation Adjustment Fund be redirected towards promoting a sustainable economyn increased sustainability of economic activities;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the EU and the Member States to make promotion of adaptability to a sustainable economyincreasing sustainability of economic activities one of the objectives of the European Social Fund;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Recalls that the sustainable dimension should not be restricted to training in environment-related jobs, but needs to be incorporated into all training programmes and made a prerequisite for funding;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. CallNotes that increasing sustainability of economic activities may involve changes in whole industrial sectors, like coal power plants if for example carbon capture and storage technologies prove to be unsuitable for widespread use; calls on the EU and the Member States to create framework conditions for a socially fair transformation which minimises the negative risks of change and optimises gains for all employees;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses that the consequential costs of a lack of transformation management armay be many times higher than anticipatory investments; calls on the Commission, the Member States and the social partners to confront the responsibilities of preventive transformation management together;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Recalls that the promotion of and support for collective agreements to anticipate change and avoid layoffs and redundanciesunemployment, together with the strengthening of social security, income support systems and proactive sectoral training initiatives, are crucial prevention measures;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Emphasises that, in order for transition to be socially just, workers mustshould have a participative partnership role to play in the process; calls for the involvement of trade union "green representatives" in companies, who wouldall social partners to actively participate in "greenmaking" their workplaces, companies and industries more sustainable;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Member States and the social partners to cooperate in a structured manner with environmental stakeholders and experts, including NGOs, in managing transition; towards more sustainable ways of production;