GREENING YOUR WORK PLACE

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Upping Your Sustainable Game at Your Workplace

Going Green in the Workplace: How to Contribute | FlexJobsGoing green in the workplace can lead to costs savings and an improved environmental footprint. Here are a few ways your company go green today.

Why Businesses Should Go GreenWhy Businesses Should Go Green. Going green may seem to be the latest trend, but it is a trend with a variety of benefits for business owners. Applying green processes to the workplace creates a healthy environment for employees, reduces unnecessary waste and recognizes the role that businesses play in leading the way ...

Green HR Practices:Employee Well-being And Sustainable Business > "We have to bring this world back to sanity and put the greater good ahead of self-interest." - Paul Polman, Unilever The concept of green HR practices is gaining traction in the corporate world, as leaders discover ways to foster sustainability within their organization. Adopting environment friendly HR practices as an organizational strategy can help increase competitive advantages in the present business scenario. Also, the urgent need for a proactive solution to environmental management

101 Companies Committed To Reducing Their Carbon FootprintThese 101 companies are committed to reducing their carbon footprints and setting examples for others in their industries. These companies use innovative solutions and aggressive goals to see real results.

25 Go Green Ideas For the Office That Every Company Should Use25 low cost go green ideas that every company should use to help the environment and save money. Easy changes you and your colleagues can make today.

BBVA USA employees go green | BBVABBVA USA Business Banking Relationship Manager Jeffrey Silva and his son Zane have been on a mission to clean up their part of their hometown of Las Cruces.

How To Convince Your Employer To Divest Your 401(k) From Fossil FuelsA movement to create retirement options that look to a cleaner future begins with your firm.

How do green HRM practices affect employees’ green behaviors? The role of employee engagement and personality attributes

10 actions to be implemented in the company for the climateWhat can companies do to combat climate change? Discover 10 actions to be implemented in all companies.

6 ways your organisation can start adopting more sustainable practicesKudos to everyone who is making personal lifestyle changes for a more sustainable world. But is there more we can do in the workplace? Because when it comes to sustainability efforts, it all adds up, and collectively, we can achieve a lot more. As some offices are transitioning to a hybrid set up, let’s use

Ramp it up a Notch

Major corporations have thousands of employees. Staff at these companies can plan walkouts or join strike actions to push their companies to make serious commitments to climate action such as reducing their consumption and switching to clean energy alternatives.

Google Workers to Join Amazon and Microsoft Employees on Sept. 20’s Walkout for the Environment

Employees Are Fighting for a New Cause at Work: The ClimateThe coronavirus pandemic isn’t stopping employee activism, but it is revealing how unprepared we are for big disasters like climate change.

The Wrong Way to Respond to Employee ActivismThree common traps and how to avoid them.

Climate change and the workplace: What do global employers need to know?People across the world are exposed to climate change to different extents, and the same is true for the workplace. The 26th UN Climate Change…

Eco-anxiety: companies can help by cutting employees' footprintCompanies have a duty to support employees to operate sustainably at work, says Alexis Normand at Greenly, in turn helping with eco-anxiety.

Jeff Bezos unveils sweeping plan to tackle climate changeAs part of the plan, Amazon has agreed to purchase 100,000 electric delivery vans from vehicle manufacturer Rivian.

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4 ways for companies to take effective climate actionBusinesses must establish a climate strategy, define targets aligned with science, set requirements for suppliers, and align themselves with a 1.5°C ambition.

New Source of Climate Pressure for Companies: Workers Investors and customers aren’t the only ones pressuring big companies to address climate change—employees are joining in too.

10 Green Companies With Amazing Environmental InitiativesCompanies around the world are prioritizing sustainability more than ever before. From trying to reduce landfill waste to reining in greenhouse gas emissions, companies have good reason to practice…

🌎 Litterati - Creating A Litter Free World | LitteratiLitterati is the leading data science platform solving the world's litter & waste problems. Our mission is to create a litter-free world through data collected & used by governments, organizations, and individuals.

5 Ways to Show Your Employees You're Serious About Fighting Climate Change (Like Google and Amazon)Since the global climate strike, tech companies are now faced with addressing the issue to attract and retain top talent.

Divestment from Fossil Fuels

Want a Future Worth Saving For? Here’s How to Divest Your 401(k) From Fossil FuelsYour current retirement portfolio may be turning your future into an unlivable hellscape.

Divestment, Engagement, Activism | UNFCCC

Nov 4, 2021 — How do we persuade corporations to take the climate crisis seriously, and make ... it would sell its €15.5 billion allocation in fossil fuel investments.

People & Planet's Fossil Free campaign

Trade Union Groups and the Good Fight

About UsThe Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group is part of the Campaign against Climate Change. The One Million Climate Jobs campaign was set up by trade unionists within the Campaign against Climate Change, and is supported by a number of national unions, including PCS, CWU, UCU, TSSA, FBU, Unite, BFAWU and NUS.

Why Climate Change matters to trade unions | EPS

Quite apart from issues of solidarity with fellow workers around the globe, climate change will affect us all and changes to working life are inevitable.

Unions can – and will – play a leading role in tackling the climate crisisA good life for workers and a healthy natural environment aren't mutually exclusive.

Focus on why climate change is a union issuePCS has long asserted that climate change is a trade union issue and that workers need to be at the forefront of solutions required to transition to a fully de-carbonised economy. This is because no matter the work you do, workplaces are a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and accelerating climate change.

Trade unions and climate change: the jobs-versus-environment dilemmaUnions can be torn between mitigating climate change tomorrow and saving jobs today. A significant Just Transition Fund could ease that dilemma.

How the US labor movement is getting to grips with the climate crisisIn Texas and West Virginia, unions are having tough conversations about the future of fossil fuels – and finding new ways to support workers transitioning from oil and coal to cleaner jobs

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Opinion | My Job Is to Police Energy Use in My Office. Here’s How We Got to Net Zero.My co-workers and I radically cut our energy use in part by paying attention to seemingly mundane details.

Talking weather: Trade unions and climate change It's been a way of breaking the ice – but now it's time for real discussions and bargaining to find solutions to save not only the tops of the icebergs, but the whole planet. In order not to be a drop in the ocean the ILO needs to strengthen its capacity to address the issue of climate change and assist its constituents with the transition processes in relation to changes in jobs and qualifications. Lene Olsen of the ILO Bureau for Workers' Activities reports.

Climate change is a trade union issue

action we will face irreversible changes in our climate. WE have policy ... give us a fighting chance to limit the temperature rise to 2 degrees or less.

Involving trade unions in climate action to build a just transition

Such strategies will provide the means to address the complex, interdependent, structural and long-term challenges posed by climate change. They play a ...

CUPE's green union policy means a brighter future - CUPE National

Economy at Work - Summer 2014 | In March 2013, CUPE adopted its first National Environment Policy: Working harmoniously on the earth.

How to form a Workplace Environment CommitteeCUPE has a variety of tools and resources at your disposable, such as an environment policy, a green workplace guide, a workplace environmental auditing tool, and a guide to green contract language. If and when an environment committee is in place, we want to know about it, and we want to help. Please get in contact with us at: enviro@cupe.ca.

Trade unions at COP26: what we did, what we achieved, and what we need to focus on nowTrade union delegates, including representatives from IndustriALL Global Union and industriAll Europe, spent two intense weeks lobbying and organizing at COP26 in Glasgow to make sure that workers’ issues were on the agenda at the climate conference.