Bert De Wel

COP30: Council sets EU position for the climate conference in Belém The Council today approved conclusions on COP30, reinforcing the EU's commitment to keeping 1.5°C within reach, scaling up climate finance and driving global energy transition and adaptation efforts.

10 years after Paris — Europe’s biggest diplomatic win — EU risks showing up at #COP30 with words, not leadership.

Europe can still act:
→ Support a Just Transition Mechanism
→ Back tripling adaptation finance by 2030

Not new ambitions — just what’s needed for credibility!

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Let’s institutionalise support for national #JustTransition plans - real cooperation, real resources. Governments agreed to transition away from fossil fuels at COP28. That means real plans in NDCs - not just energy, but food systems too. Justice must shape it all.”

#BAM

🌍✊ Trade Unions at #PreCOP2025 in Brasília:
Workers demand a #JustTransition COP30!

💼 Quality green jobs
⚖️ Climate justice & equity
💰 $1.3T climate finance with no added debt

📣It’s time to move from promises to action.

📰Read the ITUC Demands for #COP30: bit.ly/4nM1Sv2

Unions have climate solutions! Powerful Just transition actions from South Africa presented by Boitumelo Molete (COSATU), Eche Asuzu (NLC), Mansi Shaw (SEWA) and Rosalina Amorim (CUT), shared by Kaira Reece (TUCA). We're ready for COP30. Unions are central for the implementation of climate policies.

Saudi Arabia bans protests. Migrant workers who tried to denounce labour abuses on solar projects were deported. buff.ly/A3QMDJv

Less than 1 out of 5 renewable energy bosses is a women. A shame. The energy transition needs to be gender inclusive! #JustTransition
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🚨 HAPPENING TODAY!
🌍 It’s World Day for Decent Work – and we’re going LIVE at 13:30 CEST!
Join workers from around the world as we stand up for:
🗳️ Democracy
⚖️ Social Justice
💼 Prosperity for All

Don’t miss this important conversation.
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#WDDW2025

In landmark labour case, UN World Court weighs in on right to strike The International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened hearings on Monday to determine whether the right to strike is protected under international law – the first time the world’s top court has been asked t...

Paapa Danquah, speaking for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), described strikes as a timeless expression of collective action. “Strike action has been our vital tool … to improve labour conditions and to defend our human dignities".
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Workers on Saudi renewable projects were forced to pay $1,600 recruitment fees before being subjected to abusive conditions, a new report says. buff.ly/A3QMDJv

📢 This October, the call is #ForDemocracy to benefit everyone, not just elites. The #NewSocialContract demands:

🔶Stop corporate capture
🔶Enforce rights
🔶Invest in care
🔶Make democracy work for people, not profit

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🎥Building Power and Democracy at Work with #MigrantWorkers

🗣️ “Migrant workers are indispensable to the global economy, yet their basic rights — especially the right to freedom of association & collective bargaining — are often denied.” Irem Arf @ituc.bsky.social

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Gaza: ITUC calls for urgent action for sustainable peace and for the release of Global Sumud Flotilla participants The ITUC expresses deep concern over the interception by the Israeli military of the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza. “This peaceful civil society mission to deliver aid to Palestinian civilians…

🚨 Gaza Update: ITUC urgently calls for sustainable peace and the immediate release of the Global Sumud Flotilla participants 🚢🕊️.

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#SailToGaza #TradeUnionsForPeace #ForDemocracy #Solidarity

💣 $2.72 trillion. That’s what the world spent on weapons in 2024

📉 While schools, hospitals & essential services are underfunded.
🕊️ 80 years after Hiroshima & Nagasaki, we don’t need more bombs — we need a global #nuclearban

🗞️ @equaltimes.bsky.social: www.ituc-csi.org/Eighty-years...

🌍 80yrs since Hiroshima & Nagasaki — Never again

💣 200,000 lives lost. The nuclear threat still looms
✊ Trade unions say: invest in people, not war

📝 Sign RENGO’s #nuclearban petition: www.jtuc-rengo.or.jp/activity/kiz...
📢 Support ITUC call for peace & democracy: www.ituc-csi.org/global-call-...

🌍 Join us July 28, 13:30 CEST for a global call to action on peace, disarmament & justice.

With @ituc.bsky.social @greenpeace.org @oxfaminternational.bsky.social @350.org @nuclearban.bsky.social @intpeacebureau.bsky.social

💬 Defend democracy. Challenge inequality. Build peace.

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🌍 BREAKING: Climate impunity ends today - by order of the world’s highest court.

The International Court of Justice has spoken:
✅ States are legally obliged to act
✅ Inaction = human rights violation
✅ Polluters must be held accountable

This is a legal revolution for our planet.

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice.
🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability
📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇
#ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

This is SO important. The International Court of Justice affirms that the failure to phase out #FossilFuels can constitute an internationally wrongful act, giving way to #ClimateReparations for related harm. 🔥
Truly a new dawn for climate action and accountability. ⚖️ #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet

Important piece in the guardian that quotes our work on how the petrochemical historical bloc seeks to derail a UN global plastics treaty @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social
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Workers want a just transition at COP30 in Belém The UN climate negotiations that took place in Bonn this June did not bring the progress that is needed to stop the climate emergency, nor did it take the devastating impact of climate change on worke...

OPINION | by @bertdewel.bsky.social & Boitumelo Molete (COSATU)

#JustTransition #TradeUnion #COP30 #UNFCCC #SB62 #ClimateJustice #WorkersRights #NDCs #ClimateAction @ituc.bsky.social

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CONFIRMED by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Worker voices are essential to determining global efforts that address the climate crisis 🌍 Solidarity Center's @ilawnetwork.bsky.social was instrumental in ensuring workers were considered in landmark opinion. More here 🔗 sclinks.co/3GCnGZw

Solidarity Center - Historic Climate Ruling: Workers’ Rights Must Be at the Center of Climate Response, Says Inter-American Court In a groundbreaking opinion with global implications for workers and labor rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on July 3 affirmed that states have a legal obligation to protect human…

Historic Climate Ruling: Workers’ Rights Must Be at the Center of Climate Response, Says Inter-American Court
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🌍 The #BonnClimateConference closed with a powerful call from trade unions:

💬 “Whether you’re in the Global North or the Global South, your workers are depending on you to deliver a #JustTransition.”

#BelémCOP30 #ClimateAction

👀 Ojo a nuestro primer reel desde la #SB62 de Bonn con @bertdewel.bsky.social, de @ituc.bsky.social, representando a nuestras compañeras sindicales @ccoo.bsky.social y @ugtenverde.bsky.social 🌱

#justiciaclimática #alianzaporelclima #cop30 #transiciónjustaYA #justtransitionrising

🌍 At today’s IEA Labour Council, Luc Triangle stressed: “Workers are among the first to feel the climate crisis.”

The new IEA report calls for good jobs & strong social dialogue to drive a just energy transition.

🔗 www.iea.org/news/iea-lab...

LobbyControl reveals that a new German organisation that attacks NGOs and their funding was set up by PR consultants and #lobbyists from the biotech and chemical industries 🚨

Founders of "Initiative Transparente Demokratie" work for or have worked for #Bayer #CEFIC + biotech and #tobacco industry ⚠️

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
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Trade unions take Saudi Arabia to UN labour body over exploitation and deaths of migrant workers Workers' representatives at the 113th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) have formally filed a complaint against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, citing widespread violations of migrant ...

Global trade unions have filed a complaint against #SaudiArabia at the UN's @ilo.org #ILC2025, citing severe abuses of migrant workers—including wage theft, passport confiscation & debt bondage.

According to the #RightsIndex25, Saudi Arabia is rated 5 - “no guarantee of rights”.

🗣️ “From India to Argentina, a billionaire coup is undermining democracy and criminalizing unions. But workers have the power to #TakeBackDemocracy and lead a #JustTransition written by and for working people.” Todd Brogan @organise.bsky.social ✊

🔧 "Labour rights are a toolbox for social justice. If you allow unions, if you organize collective bargaining, if you enable social dialogue — that’s how we negotiate justice." – Bert De Wel, ITUC 🌍✊ @bertdewel.bsky.social

#JustTransition #ClimateJustice #LabourRights #SocialDialogue