U.S. Union Movement Joins in U.N. Climate Change Talks in Bonn
Bob Baugh, executive director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council and co-chair of the AFL-CIO Energy Task Force, is in Bonn, Germany, for meetings to ensure that labor’s input contributes to larger United Nations global climate change discussions later this year.
More than 4,000 representatives of governments, business, labor and environmental organizations from around the world are meeting here in Bonn as part of global talks on climate change. The June 2-12 sessions in the former German capital are focused on the outline of a new climate agreement we’ll discuss at a larger U.N. climate change conference this December in Copenhagen.
Members of the AFL-CIO and 30 other international trade union representatives are taking part under the umbrella of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). We are here to follow up on our previous efforts that have resulted in language within the current climate change proposals that speaks to “Just Transition,” and to plan for a series of union events in Copenhagen.
