UNISON’s general secretary Dave Prentis and UNISON’s energy service group sent a solidarity message to the ITUC at UNISON’s national energy conference in Glasgow today.
The ITUC will be representing the global trade union movement in the United Nations Paris treaty on climate change in December 2015.
UNISON supports the call for a just transition in the treaty, which will ensure that energy workers in the UK are placed at the heart of plans for a national climate change transition to meet energy efficiency and renewables targets. UNISON is committed to:
- campaign for the UK government to include the UN’s objective of a Just Transition to meet the UK’s agreed climate change targets campaign for a national goal of a virtually carbon free UK power sector by 2030;
- campaign for our energy intensive industries with a national goal to develop and grow the world’s most energy efficient industries in the UK;
- call for the reform and eventual phase out of fossil fuel subsidies;
- support union-led ‘greening the workplace’ campaigns across the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Conference was also joined by Dr Doug Parr, chief scientist and policy director at Greenpeace UK, who spoke on the charity’s shared goals with UNISON around energy targets.
