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Title: Rethinking Canada’s Auto Industry: A Policy Vision to Escape the Race to the Bottom
Identifier (PID): yul:823121

Title: Climate change and our jobs: finding the right balance. Discussion paper for the CAW Canada - Quebec Joint Council. St. John's N
Description: This report provides an overview of the issues of climate change, and a history of the CAW's positions and actions on environmental issues. It concludes with a statement of future intentions for bargaining and advocacy.
Identifier (PID): yul:788613

Title: Managing Canada's Resource Wealth in the interests of Canadians and the Environment
Description: The policy document sets out fundamental issues for workers in the resource industries that Unifor represents, including mining, forestry, fisheries, oil and gas. This document acknowledges the dangers of climate change, respect for First Nations rights, need for stability and economic sustainability, regulating foreign ownership, need for Canadian jobs, etc. It outlines its opposition to any pipeline development for export (including Line 9), under the principle that refining jobs should be kept in Canada. Also includes as an Appendix, a useful compendium of the past policy statements and reports of Unifor's predecessor unions: CAW and CEP, going back to 2008.
Identifier (PID): yul:788609

Title: A New Union for a Challenging World: Unifor’s Vision and Plan
Description: At the founding convention of the new union (a merger of the CAW and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union), Unifor promises to oppose the export of raw bitumen and the construction of massive pipelines, advocating for more “made in Canada” inputs and processing. It pledges to work with environmental allies to advocate for a Canadian energy policy which reduces GHG emissions, ensures a sustainable development of the oil sands and promotes value-added jobs in upgrading and refining petroleum products.
Identifier (PID): yul:788608

Title: Climate Change and the Australian Workplace: Final Report for the Australian Department of Industry
Description: This report, inspired by the Canadian Work in a Warming World project at York University, covers a similar broad range of interest, acknowledging the importance of the world of work in producing, and thus, mitigating, carbon emissions. It seeks to describe the policies and attitudes and innovative reactions of Australian management and unions regarding climate change and greenhouse gas emission reduction. It also reports on labour market impacts of climate change. Section 4 is an analysis of the environmental clauses in Enterprise Agreements in Australia for 2009-2010, and for 2011-2012.
Identifier (PID): yul:786664

Title: Community Energy Planning: the Value Proposition. Environmental, Health and Economic Benefits
Description: The paper reports on Community Energy Planning activities and programs in Canada, with comprehensive economic analyses and case studies of six. The report states that more than 180 communities across Canada, representing over 50% of the population, live in communities with some community energy plan. The cities of Barrie and Hamilton, Ontario are given as examples: the study evaluated the long-term effects (over a period from 2008-2031) of maximizing cost-effective building energy efficiency retrofits and technologies and found that for every $1 million invested in building energy efficiency retrofits, over 9 person-years of permanent employment would be created within the province of Ontario. The Project Partners for this report were Community Energy Association, QUEST, and Sustainable Prosperity.
Identifier (PID): yul:776496

Title: A Green Industrial Revolution: Climate Justice, Green Jobs and Sustainable Production in Canada
Description: Marc Lee and Amanda Card acknowledge that transition to a zero carbon Canada will take several decades, and state that the principal challenge for Canada and all countries is to decouple the economy from fossil fuels. They calculate that only 9% of Canadian workers are employed in jobs related to fossil fuels and other "hot spots" of Canadian industry (including electricity generation, freight transportation and transportation services, chemical manufacturing, metal manufacturing and agriculture), yet these sectors comprise 78% of industrial and commercial GHG emissions. The authors also calculate GHG emissions per worker in 14 industrial sectors in Canada. The report offers 12 recommendations for achieving zero carbon growth while creating and maintaining decent green jobs.
Identifier (PID): yul:773235

Title: Getting Fit: How Ontario Became A Green Energy Leader and Why It Needs to Stay the Course
Description: The report counts the Green Energy Act of 2009 as an overall success, estimating that it has created 91,000 direct and indirect solar sector jobs and 89,000 direct and indirect wind sector jobs. The report also provides results of an April 2016 opinion poll it commissioned, showing that 81 per cent of Ontarians support further development of renewable energy; 56 per cent see renewable energy as having a positive impact on the provincial economy, with only 19 per cent believing green energy will harm economic growth. The report also relies on calculations done by Power Advisory LLC to refute the frequent complaint about green energy policies: it states that new renewable energy additions accounted for just 9 per cent of the average residential power bill in 2014, and that other generation sources (nuclear in particular) and costs for upgrading and expanding the province’s power transmission system represent a far larger proportion of the average monthly power bill.
Identifier (PID): yul:772603

Title: Good Jobs, Clean Skies: Economic Growth and Greenhouse Gas Reduction in the Mayors' Council Transit Plan
Description: The report examines the potential economic and climate impacts of the Mayors’ Council Regional Transit Plan, which calls for an investment of $7.5 billion over the next ten years in the Vancouver Tri-City area. The analysis forecasts 26,322 person years of new direct employment, 43,800 person years of total employment, $2.96 billion in wages, and $4.48 billion toward GDP in Metro Vancouver over its 10 year life span. Additionally, the area would experience an 8.2% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions from transport, versus a business as usual approach, and the plan would save more than $1 billion in traffic congestion costs. By improving by 7% the number of jobs accessible by transit, the Plan would support targets for livability, growth, and location of employment.
Identifier (PID): yul:576664

Title: Securing our Children's World: Our Union and the Environment
Description: Developed by the International Executive Board Environmental Task Force, approved by full convention in 2006. It builds upon the landmark original report, OUR CHILDREN’S WORLD, which was adopted at the 25th Constitutional Convention of the USW in Toronto, Ontario on August 30, 1990.
Identifier (PID): yul:576663

Title: Employment in Green Goods and Services - 2010
Description: The first year of results for the Green Goods and Services survey, measuring the extent of green jobs in the U.S., using the BLS unique definition. A second report released in 2013 cumulates and adjusts this information.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120580