 At least I am honored to welcome you all to our first-ever Global Summit on People-Centered Clean Energy Transition. We are – at the IEA, we are honored that so many of you came, different parts of the world, especially those colleagues and friends traveling from Africa, from Latin America, North America, Asia, and of course, always from Europe, your efforts, your willingness to attend this meeting is much appreciated. Dear colleagues, I wanted to also welcome our special guest, very special guest, the mayor of Paris, Madame Anne Hidalgo, it's a great honor, Madame Mayor, to welcome you here. I guess the first time at the IEA headquarters, but I hope not the last time, but thank you very much for that. Dear colleagues, this meeting bringing governments, labor, civil society, youth, and industry is unique. This gathering is happening for the first time in the energy world. And we are, as International Energy Agency, we are very happy to make this happen under having the first-ever Global Summit on People-Centered Clean Energy Transition. If I may, let me tell you why we thought such an initiative is needed. To do that, I have to tell you a few things about the energy world. First of all, I should tell you that energy, our profession, is a good thing. Energy makes our life easier, more comfortable, more productive, without energy, not much goes on. But today, the energy world around the world is dominated by use of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels give us energy, but it at the same time creates a major problem for all of us around the world, which is climate change. But 80 percent of the emissions causing climate change today comes from using coal, oil, and gas in an excessive manner since years. So therefore, many countries, many governments, utilities, they are all keen to push clean energy since a long time. In fact, one of the milestones of the clean energy has started in Paris, 2015, when we have the North Mac-Paris climate agreement. Now when we look at the numbers today, which we do at every single minute, I should say, clean energy transition is moving fast and faster than many people realize. Let me give you at least two numbers, which is based on our two reports came out in the last few days. One of them is about electric cars. I know half-patient, Madame Mayor's, electrification of the Paris transportation sector, electric cars. Electric cars are moving very fast in the transportation sector. Three years ago, one out of 25 cars sold in the world was electric, so one out of 25, three years ago. And this year, we expect more than one out of five cars sold as electric, growing very strongly. And in many countries, electric cars are becoming cost-competitive vis-à-vis the traditional engine cars, internal combustion engine cars. So vis-à-vis the electrification of transportation sector for climate environmental reasons, but also happening as a technology developed there. The second one, another important area of emissions, how we generate electricity, how we produce electricity. Again, according to our numbers, last year, more than 85 percent of power plants, electricity plants built in the world were renewables, more than 85 percent renewables, huge growth. And when we look at the next three years, all the growth in the electricity consumption in the world will be met by renewables alone, a big growth coming from that. So these are definitely good things, and this is going to accelerate, and I can give you many examples, but the issue is the message is clean energy transition is moving fast. Now this is good news, but we also feel that in the energy world, moving from the existing energy system to move to a new clean energy system requires a lot of efforts. And there are costs of moving from the old one to the new one. And we are afraid that the cost or the burden of the change might be disproportionately fall on the shoulders of the low and mid-income people, so this is our worry. This in turn, first of all, it is not fair, and the second, this in turn may lead not to have the public support behind the clean energy transition, which is essential, because we want a clean energy future for the people, for everybody, not for the elite. So this is the reason we thought it is important to have a dialogue with the all walks of the society to hear from them, and it is a critical issue for the IEA. For us, the clean energy transition we all talk about, there is a one word, a magic word, at least for me, equity. Equity is very important. Equity between the countries, equity between the, within the countries, equity between the genders and between the, among the communities. So this is for us essential, and it is the reason we are building, having this group here today. Now, my colleague Brian Motherway tells me, and he reported this morning, that today we have all the relevant key constituencies with us. Governments, labor, youth, indigenous communities, business, and different civil society perspectives. I want to have one remark on the trade unions, because I get the question, why the IEA invites the trade unions? We had a special meeting yesterday with the labor representatives, because we work with the governments, we are a government organization. We work with the energy industry, which is very normal with the business executives. And not to have a dialogue with the labor is not, first of all, fair. And the second, it will not bring us to a good outcome, successful clean energy transition. So today, I am very happy that the trade unions around this table represent more than 200 million workers around the world, from Africa, from Latin America, from Asia, and elsewhere. So this is an area that we are very happy, and I am thankful to our labor council leaders, Sharon Barrow, thank you very much, Sharon, and President Lossier sitting just next to me. Dear colleagues, about the IEA and the IEA's, how we look at the energy transition in terms of global picture, and in terms of being an organization which pays attention to equity. I want to give you three examples of the jobs we are doing. One of them, some of you know, I feel very patient about, is the clean cooking in Africa. So dear colleagues, according to our analysis today, in sub-Saharan Africa, four out of five families use wood, agricultural waste, animal waste for cooking through primitive stoves. And it is almost exclusively women who prepare the meal and go and fetch the wood from the forest and prepare the meal. And the fumes, the toxic material coming from the cooking is a major problem for the respiratory diseases for women. And the data shows very clearly that this respiratory diseases caused by the primitive cooking practices is one of the two reasons for premature death for women in Africa. So one of the two premature reasons for premature death in Africa. And every year, more than 500,000 women die prematurely because of this issue. And we are in 21st century using wood for cooking and half a million women die. This is an energy issue, but not only energy. It's equity issue. It's a gender issue. It's a health issue. So we thought, as a year, we make the analysis, we put the numbers, how to solve it, how much it is called. But we thought it is not time to change this picture, which is not in fact within the means of everybody. So we are on 14th of May. We are holding a major summit and clean cooking in Africa, co-chaired by the prime minister of Norway, prime minister Store, president of Tanzania, Madame Hassan, the president of African Development Bank, Mr. Adesina and myself. And we are having a lot of presidents and prime ministers, ministers from Africa, from the rest of the world, the investors, energy industry coming all here. And dear colleagues, we asked the energy industry governments to pledge money put on the table that we can solve this problem. And I am very happy to see that we have still a few weeks to our summit. We are very happy to see that there is a significant amount of financial commitments coming from different countries and companies and the others. And we will discuss this, how to make the use of it to address this problem for once and forever. I can assure you that this meeting will be a turning point in addressing this issue in Africa. And my also thanks to French government that the president Macron is going to organize a reception for the leaders coming from the world for our summit here. The second point about the IEA in this context to show our sensitivity for these issues is some of the clean energy programs, plans, policies are not well designed to protect the lower and mid income people from the changes. This is not because of intention many times because of not being well designed. So it is the reason we are coming up with a report very soon in the end of May, how to make the clean energy transition more affordable. Because in addition to energy policies, you may need some additional fiscal economic social policies to support the vulnerable parts of the community. We will come up with this suggestions because we are afraid that if the policies are not well designed, it provides also fertile ground for some people to say that the clean energy is bad for the poor, which is exactly the opposite. But we do not want to give this ammunition to them. It is the reason we want to make sure that the clean energy policies are good for everybody. So this is the report that we are coming right before the elections in some parts of the world. The third and final issue I wanted to mention. We are at the end of this meeting, there will be a chair summary I will put together and share with all of you in the few days we will send to you. But we are also going to build a commission, a global commission, a people-centered transition global commission, which is going to be chaired by the Minister of Energy of Brazil, Minister Silveira. And we will have the representatives of government, civil society, labor, energy industry. And the works of this commission and this meeting will be an input for the G20 in Brazil. A few weeks ago I was in Brasilia, I mentioned to you also, Madame Mayor, I had a meeting with the President Lula and he underlined. He made sure and reassured me that the just and clean energy transition will be at the heart of the Brazilian G20 and the output of this meeting and the works of our commission will provide an input to G20 in Brazil and our colleagues from Brazil throughout the day will tell you more about it. So dear colleagues, I wanted to finish by telling you all that this is a very important meeting for us, for the International Energy Agency, but I think also for the entire energy world. This is a first, but I believe that we were first in many areas and we hope that this initiative will provide the inspiration for the governments, for the industry leaders and others. We hope so, but even if it is not the case, we will be very stubborn to make sure that the clean energy transition will be just and equitable when IEA will follow this. To discuss these issues in our first session, we have very important speakers, I should say, from different parts of the world and with different perspectives. And the first one is I mentioned to you our special guest, the Madame Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris. We are in Paris, we live in Paris and I can tell you that Madame Mayor, we are big fans of yours, whatever you are doing in Paris, how you are dealing with this clean energy and sustainability issue is really an example for all of us. And dear colleagues, I am thankful to Madame Mayor, not only she is here, she will tell us a few words, but she is also going to host us, give us a reception this afternoon in one of the most beautiful buildings of Paris, Hotel de Ville, and thank you very much Madame Mayor. So over to you Madame Mayor, Je pense vous parler en français. Merci, thank you so much, thank you. You have the earphones here that you can follow Madame Mayor's speech. Merci beaucoup Madame. Merci à vous. Welcome to Paris, the city of love. Bienvenido en Paris. A todos los compañeros de también el mundo hispánico y del mundo entero. I will speak in French in my city and I'm also, I share the network of Francophone Mayor's around the world and I will speak in French. Bienvenue, vraiment, merci beaucoup. D'abord, merci beaucoup à vous, monsieur le directeur exécutif, cher Fatih Birol, parce que oui, cette réunion est historique et je crois qu'elle va marquer une étape fondamentale dans ce travail que nous devons faire pour nous et pour les générations futures en matière de changement de modèle, de transition énergétique et pour sortir d'urgence, parce qu'il y a urgence des énergies fossiles. Merci à vous, parce qu'en rassemblant tous ces acteurs, nous allons pouvoir sans doute échanger, marquer des points, créer du consensus sur un sujet qui devient de plus en plus difficile, même s'il y a des avancés, mais qui devient de plus en plus conflictuel aussi. En tant que maire de Paris, et je veux aussi saluer les réseaux de maires qui sont présents, le JCOM qui réunit plus de 12 000 maires à travers le monde et j'ai la chance d'en faire partie, le C40 qui réunit les 100 plus grandes métropoles mondiales et j'ai la chance aussi d'en faire partie. Nous sommes les acteurs qui sommes sur le terrain, comme nous disons souvent nous les maires, à hauteur de regard, parfois on dit à hauteur de disputes ou d'angulades, dans un bon français, de nos concitoyens. Et nous voyons depuis des années, et je suis maire depuis bientôt 10 ans, combien à la fois il est difficile de changer de modèle, de changer des habitudes, combien il y a des résistances, pas forcément dans la population et chez les citoyens, mais combien c'est nécessaire si nous voulons avoir un air pur, si nous voulons préserver la planète et la santé de nos concitoyens. Il y a quasiment 10 ans se tenait à Paris, la COP de Paris, la COP 21 qui a donné lieu à l'accord Paris Agreement and for the first time there was a strong commitment to limit the rays of temperatures to 1.5 degrees and this COP was organised like many COPs by organising a very broad multi-stakeholder dialogue but also with maires because at the time in December 2015 I gathered 1,000 maires at the Town Hall in Paris and we also contributed to the Paris Agreement by bringing forth our solutions. Since I think that this agreement that was signed in Paris placed special responsibilities on me as mayor of Paris and this means that I had to be fully aligned with the objectives of the Paris Agreement and work towards achieving its objectives and with many fellow maires we committed to deal with the most pressing problems and the first problem was atmospheric pollution and in particular in a city like Paris this is due to car traffic and so this meant we had to deal with this challenge. I know how difficult it is. I experienced this firsthand in my first months as mayor of Paris I was threatened by lobbies who came to see me and to say you have to stop you have must not talk about diesel anymore stop talking about combustion engines stop talking about their transition to electricity or hydrogen and these lobbyists said if you don't do this we shall make sure that you lose the next elections and I remember when a European leader came to see me in my office there was a very high level of pollution on that day in Paris and I had to take a decision a bylaw to make sure that children would not play in the playgrounds in their schools and I told him you're no doubt very powerful but maybe one day you will be before the judges because you know you are poisoning people and I prefer to be on the right side of history and he implemented his threats and like many mayors elsewhere in the world and I'm thinking also Serdi Khan in London there was bashing there were attacks against me in the media because the powerful companies also have a lot of leverage they can use advertising campaigns in the media there's a business model in the media that they can use and often the media are not very much in favour of the green transition so for me the best way of going forward was to have allies and my first allies are the citizens of Paris and despite the fake news despite the great difficulties to say why we had to overcome pollution and how we had to go about this and despite all the fake news and disinformation the citizens of Paris were with me on this and in particular women because very often women use public transportation and young people also because young people are very aware of course of the difficulty to build their future and so we worked together and I'd like to thank you all because you too as directors of this agency were also very vocal in the public debate to bring sense to this public debate to bring science at the forefront as the scientists are also doing the the scientists of the IPCC who for 40 years have been telling us what was going to happen and their predictions 40 years ago have turned out to be true so what's very difficult in particular this current juncture is that if we don't take the time to carry out this transition if we waste the time we have with oppositions that seek to slow down the transition then we'll never be ready in time and we'll have to act as a matter of urgency to change our model and that is a problem before being mayor of Paris I was a work inspector and I'm very pleased to see here around the table the trade unions because it's a crucial we need to take the time to carry out the transition it doesn't mean we're going to postpone the time when we're going to adopt clean energy we're going to postpone for example electric vehicles no it's to say if for instance if a car has a lifespan of 12 years in advanced countries if those 12 years during those 12 years we're not going to bring the right conditions for the clean transition and if we don't adopt measures to support the workers so that they can transition to clean jobs then we're going to have a situation of conflict we're going to see a backlash but this pushback is because a number of people don't want to change our model a number of people think that we have sufficient fossil resources that we can continue to exploit and that it's a short term gain that they can have and that they don't really care what will happen in the medium term and in the longer term their idea is that they have immediate gains they're interested in the immediate future and in a world that could die having a place in the sunshine right now often for some is the most important thing because who cares about the future and who cares about future generations we won't be around in any case to see them and that is why we have pushback and that is what is to a certain extent hindering the clean transition and I think it's very important where we can act where we do have leverage so I'm talking about the decision makers the unions the international organizations the european commissions in all of these fora we need to realize the responsibility that lays on our shoulders we have to act we need to make sure that we're leaving no one by the wayside be it the workers of the sectors that are going to see big changes or the ordinary citizens in particular the most vulnerable because technology of course could be at the service of those who can pay for the technology leaving everybody else by the wayside and right now we are at this crucial juncture and we have a major responsibility I think and I think that what we need to do is establish partnerships multi-stakeholder partnerships that's precisely what you're doing by organizing this meeting I would like to give you an example to be efficient I thought let us try to align all the agendas the global agendas my own local agenda as a mayor of Paris and let us try to make sure that if we align all the agendas we can be more powerful and we can speed up on the green transition and at the time in 2015 when I decided to apply so that Paris could host the olympics and Paralympics I saw that Thomas Barr at the national olympic committee had been working on his own agenda called 2020 this was an agenda that sought to have clean olympic and Paralympic games games that would be fully aligned with the climate commitments and so I suggested that the Paris games would be totally aligned on the Paris agreement and that is what we have attempted to do to make sure that this event can also help put forward this message of the need to change our model and to showcase with a very positive event because sport is something that's very positive and there's a lot of energy in sport so to be able to show that there is another way of organizing things and I wanted to do this in very specific ways how to move around Paris how to eat heating or cooling of buildings we worked on the olympic project taking into account all of these factors and for example the olympic village that has been built in the region of paris greater paris that's the poorest region Saint-Saint-Denis just north of paris that's where we built the olympic village it was built with the low carbon procedures it was built using wind energy we positioned the buildings to for example not have to use air conditioning or artificial cooling and this was a project that we've been taking forward that the river the sen as well because we looked at the air the water the food the trees but the water of the sen is going to be cleaned and here again we've been working on water because water is also an energy it's a resource a vital resource on our planet and thanks to the olympic and paroling games paris will be able and this will be one of the legacies of the games paris will have a clean river where we'll be able to swim and so around the 23rd of June I invite you all to come for a dip in the sen if you know how to swim there'll be no risk at all so I decided to align all of these agendas because I think that every time there's an event that brings together the planet where we can reconcile the global agenda with the local agendas and move in the direct right direction I think that it's a very positive message we're sending and since the unions are here I'd like to say that of course the issue of the working conditions during the olympic and paroling games has been a major issue and since the very beginning at the outset Bernat Tibor who's a has been one of the the leaders of one of the major french unions a CGT and who was also one of the members of the ITUC in in Geneva he helped us develop a social charter so that we would be able to during the olympics and Paralympics reduce the working accidents the work accidents and in particular a death and injury during these these this big this big project so we wanted to reconcile the environmental aspect and the labor aspect because they go hand in hand and you said this very well if we think that rich people will be able to buy the solution and forget about everybody else we won't manage it will lead to conflict it will lead to wars and a humanity that really isn't a humanity at all finally to conclude I'd like to say that these international events are extremely important it enables us to to share and I'd like to tell you my concern about cop 29 what are we going to talk about in Baku I won't say anything else because I don't want to create tension here but what are we going to talk about in Baku I won't be able to go personally because I'm persona non grata I'm unwanted and for my own security I will not be able to go to Baku but I think that in our work together we need to be very open there are lots of diplomats here around the table and diplomacy of course means that we have to talk we have to be open to others we have to reach out to others and find solutions together but I think that we also have to have a number of preconditions because here we are undermining the future of the planet a ransacking of the planet and we're talking here about fossil fuel producers who are also attacking their opponents in their own countries well I think that we really need to have a number of red lines and this isn't to raise difficulties by explaining a problem by describing a challenge we will be able to find solutions together and as mayor of Paris who's very committed in the diplomacy of cities very committed to climate diplomacy I'll be by your side mr executive director and Paris will always be a city where we'll be able to carry out experiments where we'll be able to showcase a number of things and this is what we're going to try to do during the olympic and paralympic games and I'll also invite you to a meeting with all the mayors and many experts that were organizing on the 24th of july 2024 so two days before the opening ceremony and we will of course invite you to the opening ceremony in order to share this great moment of solidarity the first great moment of solidarity after the many crises we have undergone and in particular the covid crisis so that we can share together work together and in particular bring trust so that our citizens can trust the solutions that must improve the human living conditions thank you very much thank you very much mrs idelgo agree with me that the uh uh madam mayor gave very concrete examples of how in a city the clean energy transition can be pushed in a strong and in equitable way so I when I opened this uh a meeting I gave a few reasons why clean energy should be just and equitable the economic reasons social reasons but madam uh uh mayor also mentioned one other aspect which is important as well when we think of 10 15 20 years from now to push the clean energy in a equitable way is also it also means to be on the right side of the history so I think this is very important that we are there and we are very much looking forward to the olympic games uh madam mayor so you mentioned there is a lot of energy in sports but I can assure you that there are a lot of sports and energy as well so we see we see it so thank you very much for that and with this I would like to move to a completely different part of the world and emerging a giant in Asia which is a indonesia so it's a great honor to to introduce a minister tariff of indonesia he's a great and close friend of the eye and he has he has shown leadership in clean energy issues and indonesia was recently the president of g20 and I know that mr minister and his team made everything possible that the deliberations related to clean energy was in a equitable form so uh uh mr minister thank you very much once again traveling to paris coming to to IE the floor is yours sir thank you dr biral major of paris madame hidalgo and then also excellencies distinguished ladies and gentlemen good morning I extend my warm greetings to all of you and express our highest appreciation on the global efforts to your continuous commitment to maintain energy security while ensuring the massive deployment of renewable to deliver a clean and just energy transition indonesia is an archipelagic country with 200 more than 270 million of population we have 16 000 islands 6000 are inhabitants and then needs a great source of energy since our energy capita is considered low it's about 5.8 barrel oil equivalent per capita if we compared to a developed countries which having a minimum of 17 barrel of oil equivalent per capita fossil fossil energy dominated the fulfillment of our energy demand we have 85 percent of fossil in our energy mix mostly dominated by coal yeah because we we have a quite huge potential resource of coal in addition oil and gas also is a kind of heavy support to our industries buildings and transportation sector this dependence translates into a significant circular economy across the entire value chain agriculture mining processing industries distribution consumptions which creates high numbers of workers who rely on fossil fuel industries indonesia commits to support global efforts to accelerate energy transition by setting emission reduction targets stated in our enhanced ndc between 32 to 43 percent and due to the recent situation we are not preparing new target we hope that within end of this year we can issue furthermore ambiguous target to meet our target we open to collaborate with every parties with mutual benefit ensure secure secure in return on investment we are willing to cooperate in the industries which support the renewable energy technologies but we have to also need to support the green finance in order to push more green energy which is also we have abundance source of the this kind of energy in the countries accelerating the target sooner than 2060 which is our target to reach the natural emission means more effort to mobilize the resources the clean energy transition must be able to deliver positive social economic impacts and benefiting the society by ensuring affordable energy for all through inclusive community engagement to achieve the new ndc target and maximize the social impact of clean energy transition to the communities especially low and middle income households after our government is implementing several programs right now to accelerate the transitions such as we are now developing and improving our energy infrastructures throughout the countries we already built almost 150 000 units of the gas converter to replace the diesel diesel converter provide for our fishermen who are living by fisheries and especially who are living in the outer island remote area we also currently develop our mineral processing sector to support the growing demand from e-fi industries currently there are already factories producing the four wheel electric vehicles and then also we are pushing for the two wheels that we are also having a high population in the country which consuming huge amount of fuel every day we also provide couple 10 000 of portable batteries for the household living in remote areas from which is far from the electricity grid we already developed about 1 million city gas networks for household aiming for 10 million city gas network by 2030 so the city gas will replace currently the huge consumption of the LPGs which is very costly and then at the other side we still have natural gas and we think in the future in case hydrogen is economic this network also can be used to supply the green hydrogen into into the household at the program we also provide communal biogas for clean cooking we are also rely on the firewoods back in the 60 but since we developed our we discovered our oil source by this by the year of 70 we use kerosene and now we replace the kerosene with the LPG and then the next coming we are going to replace the LPG by gas and then for the another thing is electricity hydrogen is very important yeah in order because people they need fire for cooking we also expect that in the future carbon capture technology can be developed in that competitive way yeah because we can capture also our emission carbon by after we produce clean city gas we also build couple tens of micro hydropower plants and couple tens of pico hydropower plants in the remote area for to support our people and currently we drive the conversion of our two wheels motorcycle to replace them by the batteries because we have 120 million more than 120 million two wheel motorcycle in the country assuming that if they consume one liter of fuel it equal to 600 000 barrel oil per day about the shifting labor many countries made a strong commitment to gradually reduce coal usage which was a challenge for us as a significant coal producer in Indonesia there are about 300 000 people who are working in coal mining with total with the total areas of four million hectares and then 32 000 people working in a coal fired power plant in demand for new job opportunities Indonesia has implemented programs to ensure high quality employment opportunities during the transition such as we can utilize x-mine land in two another business sources that we plan the bio we plan the biomass plantation in the use of coal mine we can install also solar power plant as well as farming so that the community continues to benefit from the x-mine sites the next is encouraging communities around the coal fired power plants to cultivate mangroves that are capable to absorb large amount of carbon it's about they said about 50 tons of CO2 per hectare per year the implementation of carbon market will create financial opportunities for the community while lowering the emissions we also distribute land certification to minnets by local communities and to ensure that people who are lost the job in the future for the coal workers they are assured they have such kind of an asset to support their life we already we already said that the educating and training coal fired power plant workers to improve their competency for our new for the new renewable energy technologies we are mandating mining companies by the regulation to implement community development programs such as education entrepreneurial skills and infrastructure development to support economically independent local communities to conclude the low carbon transition to renewable energy requires collaborative approaches between government industry and civil society that are effective to let to leverage the uniqueness of its local circumstance thank you thank you very much mr minister mr minister you are completely right we know that especially emerging and developing countries moving from for example from coal to clean energy sources would require a lot of efforts and we believe these efforts should be also supported by the advanced economies and international financial institutions to make a this transition as smooth as possible and what we are doing with the with the coal minus with the coal industry is a very good example for that so dear colleagues last two speakers in this session are from trade unions first of all I would like to turn to my colleague Luke Triangle who is the secretary general of the international trade union confederation we have been working with the with the ITUC since a long time I recently met Luke I think in January this year and we discovered that we look at the energy issues from the same or similar lenses and I am very happy to see you here look today looking forward to hear your thoughts thank you good morning thank you very much dear executive director dear Fatih it's good to see you all here thank you also for the hospitality madam the mayor and dear minister also for your introductory remarks so the international trade union confederation is a spokesperson of global labor in in the world so we organize indeed in 170 countries all the national confederation straight union confederation and for us this topic the clean energy transition is one of the most important topics where we deal with today in our world of labor because it's not only the clean energy transition a technological challenge because we will need to find still a lot of new technology that can make this clean energy transitioning happening but it's clear that it's not only a technological challenge it's also a social challenge and that needs to go hand in hand you will not have a successful clean energy transition if it's also not at the same time a social transition that works well for everybody who is involved so and let me share with you a number of thoughts that we have as ITC on this debate and I promise that I will not take it long so now Sunday there is the International Workers Memorial Day that we celebrate and it's the International Day of Remembrance an action for workers that are killed disabled injured or made unwell by their work and this year the topic that we have put center is climate risks for workers the escalating dangers posed by the climate crisis to workers globally the climate crisis is no longer a distant threat it's a present danger to workers around to globe and it's imperative that we demand robust trust transition policies and practices to protect our working people from the hazardous impacts of climate change our call to action is clear we must integrate climate risk assessments and emergency preparedness into our occupational safety and health standards the trust transition proposals by the global trade union movement are an answer to the global carbon inequalities that we see poverty and vulnerability to climate hazards are correlated and mutually reinforce each other it has been said times and times again the countries the communities and the people that suffer most from the climate crisis are not the ones that caused the problem crucially these countries and populations have also the lowest financial capacity to deal with the impacts and to finance the alternatives such as investments in renewables and it are the workers and their families in the poorest countries that are most affected by this climate injustice in such an unequal world without investment in job creation we risk losing support for climate action the climate crisis and human displacement are increasingly interconnected climate related disasters trigger more than half of new reported displacements in 2022 nearly 60 percent of refugees and internally displaced people living countries that are among the most vulnerable to climate change the majority of people forced to flee due to climate related disasters move within their own countries in 2022 disasters triggered a record of 32.6 million internal displacements of which 98 percent were caused by weather related hazards such as floods storms wildfires and droughts and securing social justice in the climate crisis is the backbone for of our just transition proposals and this is where the ITUC and the IEA can join forces the IEA has fully committed to the challenge of the Paris Agreement to keep the 1.5 Celsius goal in reach the climate challenge is essentially an energy challenge that needs the accelerated adoption of clean energy technologies combined within with the decarbonization of our economies but it's not only technological the IEA has developed that they are net zero scenarios which point to many labor related challenges and we have already made substantial progress getting beyond the simple rhetoric that many more jobs will be created that jobs lost as straight units we want to know when and where will these jobs be lost and created and above all what kind of jobs are we talking about for this we need industrial policies to be incorporated in the heart of climate energy policies I continue to say that we don't question the macroeconomic numbers that are given that clean energy transition will create more jobs than jobs will be lost but we want to have a micro solution for each individual worker that is affected by this transition we want to have a micro solution for every community every region that is affected by this energy transition and here I want to say a few words on our expectations toward for the work today of the IEA so we think that the IEA can continue to provide data and intelligence for governments and observers on the labor impact major progress has been made already by the IEA in this sense for example the recently world energy employment 2023 report the IEA should also include the ILO Aki and I'm also glad that the deputy director general of the ILO is among us here today Celeste because we have worked already on just transition together in the ILO last year and the work also continues because we think that the ILO Aki on decent work and quality jobs should be included because it's a better understanding the link with fundamental labor rights protecting labor rights and investing in jobs are the best ways to implement people centered policies protecting labor rights and investing in jobs the ILO guidelines for just transition were only last year confirmed by the big majority of countries the same countries that are here sitting around the table today and this is an important opportunity to link both processes and get out of the policy silos and thirdly the IEA has privileged access to governments the IEA can bring the social dialogue dimension in concrete low carbon energy transition policies and climate plans for countries so most importantly the new nationally determined contributions the so-called NDCs that countries have to present according to the Paris agreement so social dialogue should be part of that of that agreements and those proposals all NDCs that are prepared that this moment should have a strong just transition dimension backed up by quality social dialogue processes with the social partners and finally and probably most fundamental we need to build democratic support for the ambitious energy and climate policies that are needed support for social and climate policies in the polling booths every four to five years in countries can only be built up by strong democratic structures also at a workplace workers need to be listened to because they play an important part in finding and delivering climate solutions and they also are important in supporting the energy transition and we have recently their colleagues launched as I to see a global campaign for democracy and it's also part of this for democracy campaign real the democracies deliver for working people and that includes also delivering climate protection for workers and the link is clear if we don't include the social dimension in our clean energy transition then more and more people will be left behind and more and more people will find solutions in the populist or extremist talks that are sometimes then dominating a public debate when there are elections and in that sense working on a clean energy transition working on people-centered policies is also a strong support in stronger democracies in the world thank you very much thank you very much look this is another very good contribution to our debate and I have also noted and so did my colleagues your suggestions too for the IEA including us IEA already trying to make sure that our discussions with the governments with the energy industry has should have a social dimension this is for sure and we will push it forward just one thing I wanted to explain you dear colleagues we made a we made every year worth a energy employment report how many people have now have new jobs in for the clean energy it's growing every year for solar for batteries for windmills for electric cars now number of people who have access to clean energy manufacturing and the workers are higher than the number of people who are losing jobs because of some of the energies are left behind but they are not the same people so you cannot subtract these two numbers so we have to find a solution as the Indonesian ministers said the fossil fuel mining or refining or transportation or generating when they are left behind they are not used they are replaced by the modern cleaner versions we have to find a solution for the workers for the families who earn their bread from those practices so this is I think in my view the nerve center of how we move forward and I am thankful to look to that he underlined this issue dear colleagues my the last speaker of the session is coming from South Africa we are honored to present Lucy who is the Congress of South African trade unions the largest trade union in Africa Madame President thank you very much for coming to IEA and we are looking forward to hear your views as the largest trade union Africa and South Africa we know a strong economy wants to move forward but there are many issues to be addressed looking forward to hear your views Madame President thank you very much a program director who is also the IEA director general executive director her excellency the mayor of Paris deputy director of the ILO leadership of labor business government civil society and NGOs indeed it is an honor and privilege as the president of Congress of South African trade unions Khosatu to address you this morning as we engage on a very pertinent issue of the just energy transition workers across the globe are faced with a major shift to a low carbon economy to address the distractions that are caused by climate change adversities as organized labor continues to advocate for an inclusive and just transition it is important that we ensure no worker is left behind in the transition and that workers form part of the transition discourse in informing policy frameworks and implementation plans the just transition should be seen as an integrated transition where all sectors are able to appreciate the interconnectedness of issues pertaining to climate change and the just transition and therefore solidifying it is to the benefit of workers we must also concretize our key demands as organized labor and this is noting the first pace of the plans governments and employers are making in relation to the transition the just transition in its envisaged form in vision form for us should be to ensure decent job creation a eradication of poverty and better positioning of workers and communities to participate in the low carbon economy the working class must emphasize the significance and importance of ensuring that there is adequate skills development through the upskilling the re-skilling and the of workers in the current workforce as well as the future of workers for us the transition should also address the issues of worker ownership and community empowerment in addition to this the just transition should introduce a structural change where access to resources is addressed including combating energy poverty affordable and reformed public transport system advanced healthcare access to land and housing through land reform and redistribution chair the just transition is a topical issue which affect workers across all sectors however most immediately it is in the mining sector so we must therefore continue advocating and empowering ourselves through continuous research and engagement so as to participate in the discourse and shape the national and international narrative that will best put workers and communities in a position to form part of policy and legislation making in relation to the just transition and future of the affected sectors currently so workers must continue to call for a just and equitable transition that will ensure the workers who will transition will have sufficient support through jobs guarantees through localization through social protection measures through the skilling and upskilling as well as the universal basic income so it is in the call for a just transition that issues of gender and youth are highlighted and a key in ensuring that all workers and communities are represented and secured in the new low carbon economy it is also important that we note the significance of the participation of trade unions in the just transition discourse as the nature and future of work changes the role of unions and our recruitment and organizing becomes critical allow me chair to as I conclude to appreciate the workers the trade unions and communities that continue to forge against all odds to form part of the solution to the challenges that are presented by climate change and in ensuring that the just transition is inclusively fair and just across all sectors thank you very much thank you very much madame president for this yet another excellent speech one of the issues you mentioned energy poverty this is and in Africa this is as I said dear colleagues at the IEA we are a data driven organization we are not a political organization data driven organization when we look at the data there are so many injustices I want to share with one of them with you but I think when it comes to Africa today solar energy around the world is the cheapest source of electricity generation just cheap leave aside the clean and so on I was talking yesterday evening with the minister of chili how cheap the solar is in Latin America in Asia in Africa in elsewhere but in Africa we have the highest amount of solar radiation number one number two in Africa today unfortunately every second person still doesn't have access to electricity energy poverty as madame president mentioned yet where is the injustice the amount of electricity we produce in entire sub-Saharan Africa is less than solar electricity produced in Belgium think about the map the how big is the sub-Saharan Africa and the size of I have a great respect for Belgium but the size of Belgium think about this and how much sun sub-Saharan Africa gets how much some Belgium gets this is a big injustice so therefore I completely agree with you madame president this is another dimension of the having a social equitable clean energy transition so dear colleagues this is the first part opening part of our I would say the repeat the many colleagues at the historical summit here because you will see there'll be a lot of inspiration giving to many other institutions we hope so and we'll follow ourselves and for the next session I would like to turn to another friend of the year Sharon Barrow who is going to chair the next session Sharon over to you please thank you very much and we know you have to go miss so please feel free thank you fatty and as he has got Mayor Hildardo out let me say that you have heard just how serious fatty burial is about the social elements of justice and how they must underpin this transition so as the former general secretary of the ITC but most importantly for the minute the IEA energy labour co-chair then I must say that the IEA's voice is so important to working people and communities everywhere that we really appreciate this historic summit I'm going to have to be very tough because in fact we are way over time and I want to get as many people's voices in what is this incredibly important session the Labor team met yesterday and they know that if we don't embed both the processes so the consultation the joint planning the agreements around what just transition measures look like the capacity where it's relevant for co-sharing of benefits all of those things if they're not embedded and priced into the investments then in fact we will fail because once again we will see people marginalised and Lucy and I can tell you we thought we got that right in the jet peas in South Africa but what we found was that actually all the attention the legislative guarantees and so on was on the project of transition and people were in fact marginalised thanks to Lucy and others they're getting all of that back on deck but we've learned lessons everywhere so embedding and pricing in the structures and the cost of transition is vital and I'll just leave you with one figure for our industry partners in the room and indeed for governments and investors systemic says that if you don't include the consultative mechanisms that build trust to get the vital social license to allow this to happen without opposition but indeed with partnerships then you can already risk we are already seeing a hundred billion dollars of climate finance at risk every year it's a hundred billion today if we continue the opposition what is it next and remember opposition comes from fear so this is all about as Luke said building trust in a democratic and inclusive future so let me in fact welcome four keynote interventions and I'm delighted that they're here I do ask them to stick to the five minutes there is a clock I believe on the screen and and as I said I apologise for being tough ahead of time but Deputy Prime Minister Neon from the Ministry of Energy Petroleum and Minds of Senegal we are so delighted you're here with in fact my brother Modi Giro who is a renowned trade union partner of yours in Senegal so Minister please thank you thank you very much thank you very much ladies and gentlemen ministers ladies and gentlemen all I would first like to greet and congratulate the IEA family Senegal joined in September as an associate member and this is a real milestone it really shows how the IEA is opening up to countries of Africa countries of Africa that have a very major role to play for the future of energy in the world so this was an important milestone and it's a sign of the very close bilateral relations we started in 2019 and that covered different issues energy security statistics the analysis of energy policies energy efficiency the development and promotion of renewable energy and we can also welcome Mr Giroud who represents the workers of Senegal and who's here also so the energy transition in Senegal as we have always said we've always said that we should not place our countries in a tricky situation where you have to choose between economic development and the reduction of pollution and the protection of the environment today we have a number of challenges in terms of development and we believe that we need a plan to gradually phase out fossil fuels but for a country such as ours that's in a situation of emergency we need to have a plan that will make it possible to develop our economy and industrialize our economy and regarding Senegal where we have discovered oil and gas we believe that gas can be used as a transition energy a review of the IEA showed that if Africa developed its full gas potential over the next 30 years our contribution would go from 1 to 1.5 percent so this shows that it's not Africa that's going to be increasing greenhouse gases Africa must continue to industrialize and develop and Europe and the countries the developed countries that have mostly contributed to pollution have got to reduce the carbon footprint so this is the key message the countries that historically have contributed to this situation need to act and Africa needs to be able to develop an industrialize and I think it's a question of balance and we believe that the IEA can play a very key role in striking the right balance and establishing a partnership because we need this partnership between the different countries also we see that we have a complicated geopolitical context we had to overcome the covid pandemic we have the war in Ukraine and we believe that the transition is important and access to funding is also a very major issue in particular in the least developed countries or less developed countries such as ours and in order to hold our ambitions and be able to transition towards key energy we need a strong commitment of our international partners and this is why we believe in the just and equitable transition and we call on our partner states and the financial institutions to work together so that we can have more streamlined procedures on funding and make sure that we don't have an impact on our public debt so to conclude I'd like to say that we are very much in favor of a transition this transition has to improve the living conditions of all the communities and populations in Africa and in the developing countries whilst contributing to the reduction of poverty and social and territorial inequality whilst at the same time promoting formal jobs training in particular for women and young people and also to contribute to the economic development of countries without increasing significantly carbon emissions thanks to clean energy and also energy efficiency thank you very much for your attention thank you Minister and thank you for the discipline around time but thank you very much for such considered comments and now I'd like to introduce Peggy Hessen-Volcek who is indeed the president the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions and a great activist with her government and industry in the context of the transition in Norway Peggy Thank you Sharon ministers and Dr Biral the Norwegian economy society and welfare state is deeply fossil dependent today in Norway today approximately 200 000 working people out of a population of five and a half million are directly dependent on fossil fuel production and their supply chains for the livelihoods these industries make up a significant portion of the cornerstone companies in smaller local communities spanning whole regions of Norway more over 67 percent of our export income last year came from oil and gas exports alone the challenge of decarbonizing our society and economy is not just a technical exercise but it is a deeply personal challenge and transition for workers and the families as well as a challenge to the ways in which we organize our society our welfare state and our economy the question of how we can become less dependent on fossil fuels is crucial to enable us to transition while minimizing the negative impacts on working people to prevent high levels of unemployment and to reduce the risk of increasing inequalities as a result of the transition this is crucial in order to build broad public support for ambitions ambitious climate and environmental policies for my organization alo Norway part of the answer to these questions lies in using our structures and traditions of tripartite and bipartite social dialogue and collaboration according to the Nordic model to develop green industrial policies to facilitate the transition of the fossil dependent industries of today in 2021 the main organizations in the world of work in Norway that is the confederation for Norwegian enterprises nho and the Norwegian trade union confederation developed what we called a common energy and industrial policy strategy we identified seven industrial opportunities in the renewable energy and green tech sectors that could build on the competitive advantage that we have established in the oil and gas sector over several decades the hope and aim was that several of these industries over time could take over the role that oil and gas play today in our local communities in our economy and for our welfare states in that way we might be able to transition away from our fossil dependency and the initiative received broad political support and it has to a significant extent shaped the current national Norwegian green industrial policy strategy so following up on this initiative the trade unions and the confederation of Norwegian enterprise have also collaborated to identify the skills needed to realize these industrial policy strategies and we have built tailor-made educational programs together with counting municipalities to address significant skill gaps so together we have developed concrete industrial strategies for hydrogen for battery production and we have also mapped the renewable energy needs for our industries to transition and to reduce emissions by 2030 realizing these industrial policy strategies though have proved challenging however we have begun to see considerable public resistance to the expansion of onshore wind energy projects in the past few years as dilemmas between climate policy and nature conservation policies emerge and the early democratic processes leading up to the expansion were also insufficient so this has contributed to slowing down the development of green tech industries and their supply chains as we today experience insufficient renewable energy capacity to build broad public support the green transitions must be a just transition that addresses broader social concern we have to create resilient communities through universal social protection provisions and ensure the right to lifelong learning and reskilling the burdens as well as the value creation resulting from the green transition have to be divided fairly through fair taxation collective bargaining agreements and national negotiations between the social partners that is trade unions employers and governments participation and representation in democratic decision-making processes is the foundation of building societal trust when designing policies for large scale structural economic and societal transformations policy makers must have in mind that their decisions will have direct consequences for millions of people and their livelihoods so social dialogue with the social partners in the world of work is crucial to ensure a democratic representative and just transitions thank you thank you piggy now can i turn to uh jake mbelly from the director he's the director general from the department of mineral resources and energy of south africa thank you session chair executive director of the i ea dr biral your excellencies here today representatives of labor and other social formations ladies and gentlemen good morning it is an honor and privilege to be part of this important summit organized by the i ea let me first start by indicating that my minister honorable minister mantasha would have laughed to be part of this engagement as many of you would know that he always advocate for a just and equitable energy transition that ensures that community livelihoods are not negatively impacted by the decisions we make around the energy transition south africa is a signatory to the peris agreement and the country has committed to reducing its emissions the energy sector as the largest contributor to our emissions is an area of focus and this can be seen in our energy plants and in the implementation of our new generation capacity programs they also in the just energy transition framework and the just energy transition implementation plan which focuses on the rollout of renewable energy electric vehicles and green hydrogen the title of today's summit sums up how we believe we should all be thinking about what we commonly refer simply as just energy transitions the title of people centered clean energy transitions communicate three things that we believe are important the first one being that the transitions impact people and therefore no one must be left behind the second one that transitions are about moving energy systems from high carbon emitting sources to low carbon emitting sources meaning that all clean forms of energy sources must be considered in us ensuring that we maintain energy security thirdly that in line with the UN triple UNF triple C principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities there are multiple pathways to transition and this will vary from country to country hence we refer to transitions not transition response to shifting labor dynamics also require that we design our interventions with an understanding that there is no one-size-fits-all solution this is the case at a local and global level the green transition technology supply chain transformations and changing consumer expectations are all providing key economic opportunities and new jobs across industries in line with the thinking of the EIA that was outlined by the executive director in his open remarks this morning when he mentioned the study that is going to be undertaken on protecting vulnerable groups we agree that there is a need for significant investment support policy support and well-coordinated partnerships between governments business labor and civil society in our endeavors to accelerate linear energy transmission it is also important that international and regional policies and rules on trade and financing do not trump on this principle of common but differentiated responsibilities as these practices have a potential of undermining local people-centered clean energy transitions South Africa has over the years registered the highest unemployment rate with majority of those employed being youth for South Africa a people centered clean energy transition is more than preserving current jobs but also about creating additional decent jobs economic opportunities and ensuring equity the review of the process that we followed to close one of our power station confirmed that if the vision for people centered clean energy transition is to be realized energy transition projects must be designed with a broader scope that will provide new opportunities and create additional decent jobs in local areas regions and the value chain in so far as work is concerned around skills development and work is underway in South Africa to consolidate and better organize scale up and scale up our interventions in line with the jet energy transition implementation plan thank you thank you very much and I have great pleasure in introducing another sister who's had a long history of supporting workers through transitions and that is from from the palm oil forest if I recall rightly ellie through to now of course energy transition so ellie rosseter cilliban is the president of the confederation of all indonesian trade union thank you sister saran delegates and distinguished guests especially indonesian minister of energy and minerals resource papa arrived in taserit salamat pagi pa transition towards net zero emission affect people disproportionately but mostly vulnerable people namely workers and communities one of the values of the mitigation and adaptation is because many countries view the economic transition as only the replacement of one industry with another but the lack of social perspective prevents addressing the consequences for people seems everything being discussed but it fails to capture in the detail how to actually translate the commitments made for inclusion the ecological transition faces resistance because of fear about its social consequences it is not seen as an opportunity for improving well-being well-being and social justice but rather as a trade to workers and local community for instance target toward zero emission in indonesia specifically in mining sector our energy union mentioned until now there has not been any information provided by the government or companies regarding energy transition in the sector despite they were told there will be a pass out of the coal industry in 2030 so far there is only talk but no meaningful engagement i propose the government should oblige to provide a guidance at least to answer this question what kind of support for people affected both workers and local community what kind of social protection what type of skilling and training provided how long the training type of benefits who is responsible for providing the training funding mechanism for the loss and damage facility and others need to be adopted in time of energy transition and a method for engagement in my opinion we need to pursue the clear mechanism to have social dialogue in energy transition to facilitate faster mitigation and adaptation because so far this is one of the main challenge faced by unions in many countries in indonesia unions have difficulty engage engaging the right ministerial institution to discuss the issues with due to the large number of ministries involved we urgently need cross ministerial coordination planning and agreement making thank you thank you very much ellie and for giving us back a little time you've heard four distinguished speakers i've heard the challenge people being honest about the challenge of scale the role of finance and it's a critical centerpiece but i've also heard the importance of having serious industry policy agreed for green industrialization that people can actually see it's transparent and they can trust and that includes the the opportunity as well as the essential base of trust to be about place-based development so communities can actually feel and understand that they have a future and that they feel they have a stake in it but i've also heard that in fact supply chains or indeed the value chain must be part and parcel of all of those planning elements as well or you are leaving people out of the equation the the summary really is that the commitments are vital the just energy transition principles the inclusion of people the financing and structural embeddedness of people centered principles but the implementation that actually gives the test to these is still in fact lacking in some areas and that's why we're all here today to change the face of that and with the support of the IEA i'm confident that we can move through it i have a number of interventions and here i'm going to ask you to have to be really really brief three minutes three points three minutes we used to say but these are very important interventions because i know that brine motherway and the team are taking notes so please put your ideas on the table celeste drake deputy director general of the international labour organization so important celeste the partnership between the IEA and the ILO so thank you thank you Sharon excellencies around the table i'll be really brief and i just want to focus on the opportunities here and the opportunities that we need to do to work together to create the skills so that workers can get these good jobs we know that renewable jobs are growing fast and they're growing far faster than fossil fuel jobs which remain flat but one of several barriers hindering the energy transition is the lack of skilled workers lack of skills remains a major risk to the energy transition and to job creation the energy sector needs higher skilled workers than most other industries 36 percent of energy jobs are within the high skilled sector as opposed to 27 percent in the broader economy and job vacancy rates in renewables a key indicator of labour shortages remains high particularly in building retrofit projects science technology and engineering degrees relevant to the energy sector are not rising fast enough to meet demand and the gap is even greater for jobs that do not require any degrees but the good news is that half of all workers in the fossil fuel sectors have the same skills that are in demand in the growing clean energy sectors and we they could switch into new roles with additional dedicated training and much of this training can be done on the job and within firms and the way to make that happen is to make sure that we have social dialogue and we bring workers employers and governments to the table to create skills training strategies and make sure that those opportunities are available in an equitable manner across countries across gender across all vulnerable groups and in conclusion if we support workers in declining fossil fuel sectors and regions with reskilling and social protections that can go hand in hand with just transition at the last cop when it appeared that world of work might be left out of the deliverables we continued to tell the delegates if there is no just transition for workers there will be no orderly transition and we were able to make that point and we make that again here thank you very much back to you Sharon. Thank you Celeste can I ask Diego Pardo the Minister of Energy from Chile and thank you very much for coming. Thank you so much Madam Chair so I would like to put if if I may an additional layer of complexity in this in this in this discussion um Major Hidalgo made a reference to the COP 21 uh and in in Kirin Paris and in Chile we assumed the president of COP 25 and we when we assumed the presidency of COP 25 we started working with the with the phase out of coal uh at the time we have about 25 coal power plants we are halfway there and uh what we what what we have learned and this is what we I would like to share with you today is that probably the first half of this program was very different to the second house in which we are now so the first half the first dozen or so of of of our coal power plants were mainly used as a backup uh and thus there were mainly a problem of direct employment and uh in that way was I mean they were owned by large sophisticated firms and uh we addressed this direct employment issue by uh asking and working with with these large uh uh sophisticated firms to retrain the workers and deploy them in in in different set of assets uh renewable assets and this was successful we were able to do that but when we move forward to the second house of this of this coal fleet then we are talking about base load of of the of the electricity system at this come with uh increasing importance in the economic activity of these towns and then we start to dealing with problems of indirect employment not just retraining of direct workers but also dealing with how do we face the lack of economic activity on this on this on these places and uh this is an ongoing problem we don't have like a clear solution for this but one what I want to highlight is the is the emphasis might not be only on the on the direct employment this is a hard uh issue and requires a good set of policies but as we start moving in the in the in the phase out of the fossil fuel industry and the in our case in the coal fleet of generation of electricity we're going to face increasingly a problem of indirect employment and this has to be this should be addressed in a way in which the industry for industry approach that I have been hearing here I mean new industry that grows in in replacement of the old industry that that that goes away has to require some overlapping both geographically and temporally we need to be able to provide to these communities a new industrial activity in the same places or relatively in the same places and roughly at the same time in in in in which the things uh the old industry goes away and the new industry comes in um this is increasingly difficult I don't want to to to to to discourage this effort but direct employment is just one important problem this is is a big issue we need to tackle with with proper policies but especially as we move forward in our in our in our in an effort to to to obey the missions we're going to increasingly face problem of of indirect employment and this requires new set of policies new set of policies that involve mainly industrial planning and industrial organization thank you thank you very much another determined call for place-based development and so I thank you for that Plumman Dimitrov is in fact the president of the Bulgarian Confederation of independent trade unions and has some scars from this transition despite their total commitment to indeed making it a just transition plum and I can't see you but wherever you are thank you Sharon so I will try to use my three minutes to to raise three points as you said and the first one is going to be the discrepancy the gap between the the green legislation and regulatory frameworks and the social and labour commitments but also dimension of of the oldest fundamental change and this should be addressed in a national just transition plans and this is as the previous speaker just said at the key issue the key issue is to see where the new jobs are going to be created before closing the old jobs otherwise we are in in the middle of the nowhere and the people are lost and they the slogan no one left behind the justice slogan so this is a key for us to have this legislation that simultaneously with a green requirements co2 or whatever put in front of the governments and unions and businesses the same requirement the social requirements and the new jobs requirements as the same in the equal footing second one is a future proof technology transfer of course many people spoke about that but we really badly needed the both green and digital technologies to be transferred in a coal mine sectors and closing regions common closing regions before being able to discuss this issue indeed but I don't think that this industrial policy and the new developments is going to happen what I mean I mean that all we should give a priority of our competition the technology export to the third countries and should be should be able to do this and also all these components and the supply chain should be made in those regions in those countries that should be or will be affected in all this green transition and a third point sorry one one one one issue is Syria important one that's open a strategic issue about the critical minerals we have been discussed yesterday and critical minerals availability and control and Dr. Biroio was asking us about some ideas what to do a I think the the international agency electricity agency can do some research on this because it's really crucial about the supply chain development in in countries that don't have critical minerals but also have for coal mines and have to close those coal mines and all these old industries the third point that I want to raise is the finance of course and that the tissue that I'm going to say the finance is not enough our core is crucial to to have access to finance but in our case in Europe we have our just just tradition fund we have recovery and resilient facility all this tough idea billions of euro in our case we have access to 1.2 billion of euro to close three in the three coal regions 20,000 direct jobs and another 50,000 indirect jobs and after two years negotiating with the six consecutive governments because of political turmoil in my country we end up with a just nation plan approved by by Brussels but not approved by social partners neither local communities so an end of the day it is not working so that I'm saying the new jobs should be created in the same region as Ambassador from Minister from Chile just said but also with a finance which is timely and well utilized by local businesses and social partners and unions at the same place thank you thank you Plumman can I now ask a very courageous business leader and indeed a friend of Labour Maria Mendeleus who's the Chief Executive Officer of Wayne Main Business well thank you it's a pleasure to be at the IA my first job was in this building so it's always great to come back thank you Fatih in three points so well business see an opportunity in the transition and and they know that it needs to be just and bring people along but honestly companies are starting their journey and we are learning as we go the women business coalition created the just energy transition platform there are plenty of examples there but honestly we are starting the journey there are great leaders here I see my friend from Inka in front of me and she can give you plenty of examples first point systemic inequalities derived from climate is a big business risk so business know that we need to tackle this business has an interest in bringing the staff along along with skilling up skilling because they need these people to run their business so the dialogue with employers is fundamental and thirdly bringing communities along is also essential and also bringing the supply chain it gives business the license to operate let me conclude with a metaphor my friend Fatih mentioned there is a lot of sports in the energy transition and I can say that that's really the case and so for business that are in this race there is fundamental that they are well prepared that they have a plan and they have targets that they have the best players in the team so the employees and they have a great supporters this is the communities that cheer them and this is a recipe to win that said they were there's always lack in these games and sometimes lack doesn't come along so thank you for inviting us there are plenty of examples but for allowing other people to speak I I can call you to go to the energy transition platform in our website to see them thank you thank you and indeed I also recommend the platform it's a really good set of lessons and ambitions there can I ask ambassador Luca Sabatucci from Italy please thank you chair dear colleagues this coming Monday the Italian G7 minister meeting on energy and environment will start in Turin and the the IA Executive Director our friend Fatih Birol will be a protagonist there so Fatih we count on you the overall approach of a fair and inclusive transition which also takes energy poverty and barriers to energy access for all will indeed guide the Italian G7 presidency on environment climate and energy we believe that universal access elimination of energy poverty and enhanced energy security are an integral part of the shift to clean energy to be fully effective policies to ensure a people's central energy transition must take into account different national circumstances in the Italian context the focus is on supporting consumers and business particularly small and medium-sized enterprises which are the heart of the business fabric of our economy both of them must be relieved of the potential risk of accelerating the clean transition through appropriate incentive mechanisms and policies to ensure that no one is left behind designing clean energy transition to minimize disruptions and maximize job opportunities means for us paying close attention to all tools that can make the new energy paradigm more accessible and inclusive concrete examples are collective self-consumption energy communities energy efficiency in buildings district heating agrivoltaics this new energies model will save energy through the promotion of energy efficiency and simultaneously create new ways of producing and consuming energy this involves new skills abilities and new job opportunities with direct benefit on workforce our national recovery recovery and resilience plan also provides an important boost it allocates significant funds and incentivize private investment and improve access to finance in the areas of renewable generation for self-consumption and sustainable transformation of the production process geothermal district heating can provide affordable energy to cities in addition retraining the fossil fuel using for workforce to learn geothermal energy skills contributes to a just transition for workers and their communities finally the development of behavioral measures for efficiency for efficient energy use has been experienced in Italy in the recent past with the success of measures taken to reduce natural gas consumption as a response to energy crisis thank you thank you very much ambassador and now I'd like to ask Ludovic Voort who is the confederal secretary of the european trade union confederation Ludovic thank thank you Sharon uh dear all the excellences uh yeah I would like to build on a few things that were already said rightly said uh I think there are we have the climate objectives that are that are set uh the problem is that the social uh mitigation of this climate objective is not yet uh on the table not sufficiently we see at you level for example that there's only one country that has a comprehensive framework for just transition and we feel that the climate objective are for the moment socially unfit so this links to what was already brought in the discussion the need to have a phase in of jobs at the same moment and at the same places where there's a phase out of jobs because if a big company closed for two years before another company comes as it was also said by the minister of Chile the indirect jobs in these regions will be affected so SMEs won't survive or a restaurant or or little companies will not survive in a context where the big company that is and that that was active there is is disappeared disappeared so this brings the concrete element of the need for investment in the regions uh the older question of the indirect job brings the discussion on uh investments and we see that the clean energy investment also needs to uh to uh to triple uh the there's a lot of investment uh done but uh we need to triple the clean energy investments uh by 2030 uh at a at a high level i think we need also to discuss of anticipation anticipation of change uh with trade unions through social dialogue will also be an asset for businesses because they will be ready for the climate shocks uh they will be ready with upskilled workforce and this is where i want to bring the discussion also on it's the working conditions of the workers attracting workers in the clean tech industry will also depend on the attractiveness of the jobs not only on the skills of workers there is a need to reskill workers and there is a possibility for job to job transition from brown to green jobs between brackets but the question of the concrete working conditions in the new jobs in the green jobs will be key so the question of if they are union friendly these companies if the quality of jobs is high if the wages are acceptable if the new health and safety risks are anticipated if apprenticeship if retraining upskilling output on the table will be key to make sure that we can attract workers in these sectors to conclude i think we also need to bring the dimension of it's not only that we need to transfer workers from brown jobs to green jobs we need also a better world of work for tomorrow and for this the dimension of gender is key because only 16 percent of energy work the energy workforce is made up of women so and often paid less than men so we need also to have concrete policies that will also re-equalize and create the better world of work for tomorrow reducing the barriers to reskilling and the barriers to inclusion and employment for the major marginalized communities too thank you thank you very much can i actually ask betony johns who's the director of the office of energy jobs in the department of energy in the us betony great thank you i just want to i i want to thank you for hosting this dialogue it's so important as we think about not just shared principles but implementation of policies that are already adopted and i want to talk about the u.s experience over the last three years with what we have is historic uh climate policies climate and clean energy policies with the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure law and the inflation reduction act and the way that we got these policies in the first place was a broad coalition that included labor unions uh that really helped design and shape the policies and put labor standards into the statutory language so that as we're implementing them we can lean on that statutory language where there's certain requirements that uh that companies must meet if they want to access incentives and tax credits or other public dollars for implementation but above and beyond the statutory requirements we have been leaning into the things that we can do at the agency level at the department of energy uh on our on our discretionary funding and attaching conditions to the funding uh the funding terms and conditions so we have about a hundred billion dollars in grants mostly to private sector companies that are looking to accelerate the clean energy transition everything from battery supply chain projects to hydrogen carbon capture a wide range of clean energy projects and then we have a few hundred billion dollars in loan authority and on all of that funding we've designed a framework we call it the community benefits plan framework that at the time of application in the proposals we require that companies seeking funds develop a community benefits plan and this has four components and basically the idea is that they have to address these social considerations as an approach to mitigating the risks on their projects and ensuring broadly shared benefits and success so what we require that they put in this plan is meaningful engagement with labor and community stakeholders ideally leading to negotiated agreements between those community and labor stakeholders and the companies we're asking them to think up front about the quality of jobs they're creating are they sufficient to attract the skilled workforce that they need sufficient to retain that workforce and what we what we define as job quality are above average wages and benefits workplace health and safety investments in worker education and training and a free and fair chance for workers to join a union what is the employer's commitment to support worker organizing and collective bargaining we score based on this we also ask them to consider access to jobs we know that without intervention as jobs get better they tend to get more exclusionary so we want them to think up front around how they're reducing barriers systemic barriers for certain workers to access quality jobs how they're thinking about supporting the employment of displaced energy workers and folding that into their their their business plan and their practices and then finally how are they thinking about benefits accruing to energy communities and disadvantaged communities so all of this is factored into the scoring of the proposals and firms that have strong commitments score better and they're more they are more eligible for for for federal funding thank you thank you Bethany and indeed the power of procurement principles and if there's an incentive then people will look to see that they have to be responsible we have a few speakers left and I just ask you to be really strict on time can I ask the deputy minister of Spain Sarah Aguilson I'm not sure Sarah if I said that properly who is indeed well very welcome now thank you thank you very much thank you Excellencies dear colleagues I would like to start thanking the agency especially Dr Viro Fati dear friend I think it's very important to have this meeting today I think all agree not just because of the issue because of all the people around this table are key for this fair and just transition that all of us I know that we want to support before I continue I would like to express the best wishes for today's meeting from Teresa Rivera vice president and minister Sikandar to attend these meetings because he's following Petersburg dialogue and now I will switch to Spanish thank you very much I would like to share with you as Maria Mendelucci has said in Spain we have accelerated our energy transition such a transition that needs to offer more and better opportunities for work we need to incentivate social dialogue and consolidate social justice and gender equality in Spain we based our efforts on four pillars in order to advance a just transition we have created specific government structures what do I mean by a specific we have created an institute for and I should underline for just transitions not leaving no one behind and that's what we we have been devoted the last few years we have coordinated efforts and secondly this type of work requires governance collaboration between governments companies private institutions the civil society but we need to have local communities being part of this effort and this is what Spain has opted for we have worked in tandem with each organization present this is a transition that opens the door to many opportunities as my colleague from South Africa pointed out but first of all we need to create jobs wherever those jobs are lost and I would move on to the third main pillar that we have used in Spain and I would like to share with you we need to be prepared preparedness and planning would allow us to identify what are the jobs that would be created in the energy transition framework and for that purpose we have a plan that moves into 2030 2050 based on an energy poverty plan we have roadmaps to anticipate what will happen and in that purpose we have created a cross cutting approach to just transition and we have incorporated gender equality in all of our efforts the fourth pillar and I'm very aware of time is skilling by being prepared we would be ready to skill our people right and that would create more opportunities all in all energy transition needs to go hand in hand with economic development and of course we need to have coordinated efforts between industries and local communities thank you very much thank you deputy minister and can I ask now in fact david arinsey who is dg7 youth constituency and well-known to those in civil society for his advocacy david thank you so much it's such a pleasure to be here a lot of regards to ia led by his excellency dr fattie beryl and the ia team thank you and thank you to everyone here looking at this very important topic you cannot talk about gender and shifting labor dynamics when it comes to energy you know without also talking about even the relevant levels of awareness and advocacy that needs to be undertaken to ensure that everyone speaks the same language everyone understands the challenges that is brought of us and what necessary actions that needs to be taken in order to get to the destination which we seek which is a clean and in a clean energy future for all but we have also recognized that skilling and reskilling is very critical because on one hand you have formal education but also on the other hand we have seen that technical vocation and skills is very important also to bridge that gap for those who may not even necessarily have formal education youth and women inclusion we see the gaps that we do not have gender priority when it comes to also workforce representation and we have to put a lot of effort towards bridging this gap but this also presents a lot of very huge opportunity for us as well achieving the sdgs like we have seen based on the data will provide over 380 million jobs but this also has a multi-sectoral dimension because energy is an enabler you know and it's not just in itself independent and so this also provides a lot of opportunities for trade and investment I will focus a bit also on youth entrepreneurship and here when it comes to youth entrepreneurship we see that a major challenge as well is financing and so we need to provide a lot of capacity building that engender investor readiness especially for youth initiatives across every single strata from our regions to our countries to our continents also it's important that we recognize there's this also presents an opportunity for inter-regional collaboration you know and for us to be able to meaningfully take action we need to all agree and come to a point where we understand that we cannot achieve this without a collaborative effort we need everyone in the room every country in the world every single stakeholder every country government every single demograph from children to youth to entrepreneurs to the indigenous people everyone needs to come together in order for us to be able to achieve this cleaner energy future that we see if it's going to be equitable if it's going to be inclusive if it's going to be one that recognizes the relevant impact that energy can make we all most intentionally come together towards achieving this thank you thank you and I think I think all of us recognize this is an intergenerational struggle and indeed we need to walk hand in hand across the generation so I really appreciate that thank you very much I would like to invite indeed the State Secretary Minister of Labor social affairs and family from the Slovak Republic Branislav Andrus Madam Madam Chair dear distinguished colleagues green transition in energy sector represents huge huge challenge for Slovakia mostly for two reasons most share of our economy represents industry production with high level of energy consumption and second reason is that our energy mix strongly depends on oil and gas important from Russia beside this we implement process of full closing of coal mines there are the main reasons why if not exclusive why social impact of green transition is significant that's why at the beginning of the process we modified formal rules for adoption of national strategies and law in order to make assessment of economic and social impacts obligatory part of any strategic and or legal document any such document is obligatory subject to public consultations with exclusive position of social partners in the process as well as obligatory participation of academic and analysis experts for example last update of the national energy and climate plan was adopted by the government after it was adopted and that's what I want to stress not just discussed but adopted by the national social and economic council national tripartite body according to the ILO rules does we successfully made sure that labor impacts are of the green transition will never be left behind and assessment only is not enough to follow formal rules if assessment this discover any negative impact there is formal obligation to propose mitigation measures with identification of responsible body and resources of financing thereof that means our strategic approach covers adoption of particular but what is much more important always realistic and feasible action plan how to secure labor opportunities for workers touched by any green transition measure this strategic approach is thus mirrored in strategic planning of utilization of national public funds or European funds particularly resources of the European social fund to mention just one example that means that if you are speaking about necessity to mobilize financial resources for green transition we in Slovakia always think not just about investment to technological transition but also about the investment to create to creation of new jobs or to risk killing or upskilling of workers as well as to modernization of education system with particular accent on lifelong learning and let me stress once again this approach is not a question of current political will because we made it the legal obligation inclusion of social partners as well as civil society representatives to the process of monitoring of implementation of this plan is also of vital importance and finally let me response to your third question by four sentences we can discuss what does it mean secure and high quality jobs however please take into consideration that it is impossible to upskill any worker simply not everyone is able to graduate at university and therefore we need seriously assess any possibility to create not just high skilled but also meet and low and low skilled jobs in sector of clean energy I'm state secretary for labor and social efforts so I'm not expert in energy sector however I'm pretty sure that it is possible so strongly recommend to include to green transition strategies always to include identification of job opportunities for mid and low skilled workers thank you thank you minister and indeed your commitment to making these requirements legal I think sits at the heart of confidence for people I have I'm going to ask your indulgence for just a few minutes because we have two speakers left in this list and indeed they're both from Brazil and we know how important this year and next year is in Brazil so Patricia Diane corporate responsibility specialist energy transition and sustainability department from petrobus in Brazil so good morning thank you I'm glad to be here so first I would like to talk about the just transition understanding for Latin American last year we had the opportunity to work with our Pell the Latin American and Caribbean Association of the energy companies to start building a common understanding about just transition in our region and then we wrote together a white paper with a common positioning among our Pell member companies on this topic our region has particular characteristics with gaps in access to energy gaps in sustainable development of objectives with a growing population and increasing energy demand for prosperity at the same time the region has a high potential for clean energy production so the second point about the Petrobras strategies so Petrobras as a large Brazilian energy company is moving to diversify and to expand its low carbon energy production especially through wind solar and biomass sources while decarbonizing its oil and gas operations so this new cycle of projects that's beginning it's an opportunity to put into practice the concept of just transition that we discussed in the context of Latin American Petrobras strategic plan for the next year's brings the just transition as a value and a strategic driver in the search for a partnership for technological excellence that can reduce the cost of energy and for social responsibility programs that are integrated into projects so just transition concepts were also considered in our corporate social responsibility policy recently revealed and then in our human rights action plan so the third point it's about just energy transition in practice from a corporate perspective so on our daily basis we want to we will the way we evaluate and implement these new projects and the possible roads for the energy transition can be closely related to the just transition concepts especially when we seek to look at the social outcomes of projects and initiatives including quality jobs local supply chain development and low carbon energy supply for the country in development and also how these outcomes can benefit the indicators of the sustainable development goals so in this context we are open to dialect logs like today and to find the best way to measure and to deliver progress in on the just transition trajectory thank you very much and I can only underscore how important it is in terms of security and confidence of communities that our oil and gas companies diversify put the capex that we need into sustainable and renewable energy and jobs because they have the technology the capex the infrastructure and the skilled workforce and I know and thank Fatih Beryl for leading the IEA to set a 50 percent capex target by 2030 this is so important because this sector has lagged and for workers this is potentially a disaster if we don't get it right but our last speaker indeed is Clarissa Linz who's the trustee of the Brazilian center of international relations so Clarissa thank you thank you very much madam chair thank you for the invitation for being here and as the last intervener of course I'll run the risk of being repetitive so sorry for that coming back on on four points first of all as we all know here energy related jobs are projected to grow from 60 to 110 percent by 2050 but with a very different profile as the energy jobs related to conventional sources will decrease from more than 50 percent participation to roughly 15 to 30 percent of total so this call for a careful attention to the oil and gas and coal industry jobs this is the first point the second point that has been already mentioned several times here has to do with skills we mentioned that we should reskill of course the fossil fuel workforce but I would like to call attention for a second aspect that has not necessarily been mentioned except for your last intervention madam chair that is the way to benefit from the unique expertise that is embedded in the oil and gas industry jobs such as large-scale and complex project design and implementation and pre-salt projects offshore projects in Brazil for instance the third aspect has to do with wages despite the overall employment expected gains that we mentioned here this morning it is worth noting that wages in the conventional energies are higher from a range from 10 to 30 than in the renewable space and primarily due to a higher share of skilled labor but also to a greater compensation for health and safety aspects such as occupational hazards that are to be taken into consideration in the oil and gas industry for instance and finally the fourth point is looking to the future the energy transition has to be able to retain but also to attract talents and in this domain the creation of quality jobs in existing competencies r&d efforts to explore new skills can enhance the chances of a fair transition for energy worker so to conclude I would like to emphasize that developing new technologies through r&d efforts could also be a matter of attractiveness for new talents and based on the sense of pride and belonging that they all have to share to build a strong narrative towards the energy transition thank you very much thank you and indeed I think that's a brilliant summary to round out the session actually so thank you very much Clarissa I can just reiterate that even though we focused a lot in this session on vulnerable workers and the need to transition in coal and oil and gas we all know that we're involved in nothing short of a whole of economy industrial revolution to make this happen so upstream and downstream processing and production the services sector the finance industry the insurance industry and the resilience of social protection and the care economy all of these things will make it possible for us to make the transition so I thank everybody for their participation in this first session I apologize because I'd love you all to jump in but I point out you have three sessions with structured focus so those who haven't had a chance to make a point then I'm sure you'll have an opportunity and I can only say what a great way to begin a commitment to a tripartite or a quadripartite commitment to work with the IA on the social dimensions and the speed and scale of the energy revolution we need Jane I think you have some housekeeping but again let me thank you Fatty for indeed the hosting this session and a brilliant opening start thank you Sharon thank you Dr Baral thank you everyone and now it is time for a coffee and snack break so we're going to ask everyone to come