The Green Jobs for Youth Pact is an interagency partnership between the ILO, UNEP and UNICEF, dedicated to creating green jobs for young people by strengthening business and policy frameworks for sustainable economic growth. Through public-private-education partnerships, the Pact enhances youth employability by equipping them with the skills needed for the jobs of tomorrow. The Pact brings together governments, businesses, and educational institutions through three tracks:
- Employment creation & entrepreneurship
- Environmental education & skills for green jobs
- Empowerment & youth engagement
The pact seeks to close skill gaps, develop green businesses, and promote social equality by prioritizing disadvantaged and climate-vulnerable youth. It aims to accelerate commitments and actions toward a sustainable economy, boosting decent jobs for youth in high-impact sectors. By 2030 the Pact aims to:
- Create 1 million new green jobs for youth, with a particular focus on young women;
- Accelerate the greening of 1 million existing jobs;
- Support 10,000 entrepreneurs to launching or expanding sustainable businesses, while contributing to the creation of green jobs for their peers.
Overview:
To support a just transition and boost decent jobs for youth in a sustainable economy, the three UN agencies are working together under the Green Jobs for Youth Pact with young people, governments, social partners, employers’ and workers’ organizations, education entities, and the private sector to create 1 million new green jobs, assist in the greening of 1 million existing jobs, and enable at least 10,000 young green entrepreneurs to start a sustainable business.
The Green Jobs for Youth Pact increases commitment and accelerates action toward green job creation focused on youth, particularly from the most disadvantaged and climate-vulnerable groups.
The Pact calls on all actors to help close the skills gap in developing countries, driving systemic change for people, planet, and prosperity.
Objectives:
- Aggregate: To track progress of existing/new initiatives around specific indicators for green jobs and green skills and agreed taxonomy and definitions.
- Promote: Through promoting the efforts at local/national/regional level undertaken by the different stakeholders around the green jobs and green skills for youth agenda.
- Coordinate: Through coordinating new and evolving research, best practices, events, and standards to create ONE common platform to showcase commitments and success.
- Encouraging: By encouraging our members and youth to take leadership, push this agenda by monitoring and evaluating, enhancing other stakeholders to report on objectives and share progress to influence global action.
- Collaborate: By collaborating with all relevant national and international stakeholders, and especially youth to enhance action on this agenda.
