Some useful resources on climate change, energy and just transitions:
- Climate Change in Australia (CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology): a government portal about the science and impacts of climate change
- NASA: Global climate change: Vital Signs
- NASA video: Global warming from 1880 to 2019:
- International Trade Union Confederation: Just Transition Centre
- International Labour Organisation: Frequently Asked Questions on Climate Change and Jobs
- Climate Action Tracker: An international assessment of national climate change responses
- ACTU Climate, Energy and Just Transition policy
- ACTU report: Sharing the Benefits with workers: A decent jobs agenda for Australia's renewable energy industry, November 2020
- ACTU submission to the Federal Government’s Technology Investment Roadmap, June 2020
- ACTU submission on the Energy Security Board's Post 2025 market design: An Energy Market Plan that neglects Australian workers
- ACTU submission on Zali Steggall's proposed Climate Change Act, Nov 2020
- International Labour Organisation, Working on a warmer planet The impact of heat stress on labour productivity and decent work
- ACTU, Sharing the challenges and opportunities of a clean energy economy: Policy discussion paper. A Just Transition for coal-fired electricity sector workers and communities
- Professor Ross Garnaut presenting to Australian union movement leaders on Australia's renewable superpower opportunity
- University of Melbourne, From Mining to Making - Australia’s Future in zero-emissions metal
- MUA, ETU, Victorian Trades Hall Council, AMWU, Putting the ‘Justice’ in ‘Just Transition’
- CFMEU Just Transitions Report: The Ruhr or Appalachia? Deciding the future of Australia’s coal power workers and communities
- Australian Climate Roundtable: The Australian Climate Roundtable, of which the ACTU is a member, is a broad alliance of major Australian business, environmental, farmer, investor, union and social welfare groups.
- Community Public Sector Union climate policy paper, 2020
- Blue Economy CRC, CSIRO, UTS, MUA, ETU, AMWU, ACTU, 2021: Offshore wind energy in Australia
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Read the ACTU's Congress 2021 climate and energy policy: A safe climate with good unions jobs
Clean Exports research
In October 2021 the ACTU partnered with the Australian Conservation Foundation, BCA and WWF to explore the clean export opportunities Australia could pursue. Our detailed research found that Australia could create 395,000 clean energy export jobs in emerging industries such as green hydrogen, green metals, critical minerals, manufacturing batteries and clean energy education and services. But we'll need Federal leadership and investment to get the industries off the ground and ensure Australia stakes a claim in these massive emergingh industries.
Download the summary clean exports report here.