Climate Change & Labour
Climate change significantly impacts labour markets, posing health risks and economic challenges, necessitating comprehensive strategies to protect workers and create resilient job opportunities.
Impact of Climate Change on Labour
- Health Risks: Increased temperatures and heatwaves can lead to heat stress, heat exhaustion, and other health issues, reducing worker productivity and increasing health-related absenteeism.
- Workplace Safety: Extreme weather events such as floods, storms, and wildfires can create hazardous working conditions, endangering workers' lives and causing interruptions in work.
- Economic Displacement: Climate change can lead to job losses in certain sectors (e.g., agriculture due to droughts) while creating new job opportunities in others (e.g., ....
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