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Development Co-operation Report 2024

Tackling Poverty and Inequalities through the Green Transition

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Faced with multiple priorities, including the imperative of accelerating the global green transition, development co-operation providers are at risk of losing sight of a silent, yet devastating crisis that has been unfolding even before the COVID-19 pandemic: the alarming increase of poverty and inequalities in low and middle-income countries. And yet, not only are ending poverty and reducing inequalities at the core of their mandates, both are also essential to meeting their broader ambitions in terms of sustainable development worldwide. What opportunities – and risks – is the climate priority posing for the fight against poverty and inequality? Can just, green transitions reinvigorate development agendas? How can international development co-operation policy and finance help? Bringing together the latest evidence, data and insights from governments, academia, international organisations and civil society, the OECD Development Co-operation Report 2024 provides policy makers with concrete ways of delivering on their commitments to improve the lives of billions while fostering green, just transitions around the world.

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Jobs and skills for a just transition

The climate crisis is exacerbating negative labour market dynamics, eroding livelihoods and accentuating inequalities. This chapter discusses employment and skills policy responses for a just transition, focusing on how tackling inequalities in the world of work reinforces and amplifies efforts to reduce broader societal inequalities and climate change and green transitions risk deepening labour and workplace inequalities and sharing the example of Iraq’s decent work strategy. It finds that carefully designed and targeted employment and skills policies will be a central plank of whole-of-government policy packages aimed at implementing a just transition promotes inclusive societies and workplaces.

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