Browsing Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces to Respond to Climate Change (ACW) by Subject "Europe"
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ACW Baseline Sub-Report: Policies and Practices to Promote Work Enhancing Pathways in the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy
(Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW), 2015)Presented at the Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW) International Workshop in Toronto, Canada, November 2015. This review gives an overview of the European policy context with regard to climate change. An analysis ... -
City Building (Glasgow): An Inspirational Model of Low Energy Social Housing and Public Building Production
(Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW), 2018)The aim is to investigate trade union policies and engagement in initiatives in the area of sustainable construction. The research is comparative and identifies case studies illustrative of trade union involvement in four ... -
Climate Change, Construction and Labour in Europe: A Study of the Contribution of Building Workers and their Unions to 'Greening' the Built Environment in Germany, the United Kingdom and Denmark
(Work in a Warming World (W3), 2011)This study reviews the overall climate policy and legislative framework of the European Union (EU) and then examines what governments in Germany, the UK and Denmark have done to reduce energy consumption, cut greenhouse ... -
Dark Politics: Climate Change and Labour Transitions in an Unstable World - Brochure
(Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW), 2016-11-26)This brochure outlines the agenda of an International Panel held on Nov 26, 2016 in Vancouver, British Columbia. In the context of the Trump election in the U.S., Brexit, and a rise of right wing populism internationally, ... -
European trade unions and the transition to a low carbon society
(Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW), 2015)A presentation by Fred Steward, Professor at the University of Westminster, U.K., to the International Panel: After Paris: Politics, Climate Change and Labour in 2015. The presentation summarizes major policy European ... -
Green Initiatives database
(Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW), 2014)The Green Initiatives Database covers campaigns, projects, networks, research and training activities in which unions are or have been involved, proactively or reactively, directly or indirectly (but significantly), alone ... -
Green transformation: challenge to energy intensive regions: The case of the Ruhr region and further examples from Europe
(Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW), 2016-11)Presentation by Béla Galgóczi, Senior Researcher for the European Trade Union Institute in Brussels, to the ACW All Team Meeting in Vancouver, November 2016. The presentation is a case study of the Ruhr Valley industrial ... -
Green Transitions in Europe
(Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW), 2016-11-14)Presentation by Fred Steward, University of Westminster, at ACW All Team Meeting Researcher’s Workshop. Vancouver, November 2016 -
Green Transitions in the Built Environment: Europe
(Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW), 2018)The role of trade unions in the transition to low carbon construction: examples from Denmark, Germany, Italy and UK/Scotland. This report presents findings from an investigation into the role of trade unions in the transition ... -
Green Transitions in the Built Environment: Europe (Presentation)
(Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW), 2018-11)Presentation by Linda Clarke, Melahat Sahin-Dikmen, and Colin Gleeson, ProBE (Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment), University of Westminster, to the ACW All-Team Meetings in November 2018 at ... -
Green Transitions in the US and Europe: Breadth, Depth and Worker Agency
(Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW), 2017-11-12)Presentation by Linda Clarke, University of Westminster, UK, and Dimitris Stevis, Colorado State University, to the ACW All Team Meeting, York University, Toronto in November 2017. Outlines their research to date, which ... -
Greening Work In A Chilly Climate: W3 International Panel 2011 - Agenda
(Work in a Warming World (W3), 2011-11-17)Agenda from the International Panel Greening Work in a Chilly Climate: Canadian Challenges and International Perspectives, held at the Toronto Reference Library on November 17th 2011. -
Greening Work In A Chilly Climate: W3 International Panel 2011 - Speaker Bios
(Work in a Warming World (W3), 2011-11-17)Speaker biographies from the International Panel Greening Work in a Chilly Climate: Canadian Challenges and International Perspectives, held at the Toronto Reference Library on November 17th 2011. -
Greening Work In A Chilly Climate: W3 International Panel 2011 - Video 2 - Bolt-on skill for low carbon construction? British training in European context
(Work in a Warming World (W3), 2011-11-17)The presentation aims to identify key professional and operative skill/competence requirements to low energy construction, focussing on housebuilding and trades. Set in context of vocational education and training (VET) ... -
Just Transition (to a zero-carbon economy): State of art of the EU policy debate
(Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW), 2018-11-11)Presentation by Bela Galgoczi, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels, to the ACW All-Team Meeting, November 11, 2018, at York University, Toronto. The presentation focuses on how the concept of Just Transition has ... -
What kind of expertise is needed for low energy construction?
(Construction Management and Economics, 2016)The construction industry is responsible for 40% of European Union (EU) end-use emissions but addressing this is problematic, as evident from the performance gap between design intention and on-site energy performance. ...