A Bold New Pact For The Future
Explore the future of sustainable employment with the Green Jobs for Youth Pact, a collaborative initiative by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Generation Unlimited. Together with young individuals, governments, social partners, employers, workers' organizations, educational institutions, and the private sector, the Pact strives for a just transition to build a sustainable economy and create meaningful opportunities for the youth by 2030.
Championing the Three Green E’s:
1. Green Employment and Entrepreneurship: Employers/ (youth) entrepreneurs are supported in green, circular, and sustainable business models that reduce waste, pollution and resource use while increasing the demand for skills for green jobs particularly for young people.
2. Greening Education and Skills: Education institutions equip young people with employable, including technical and core skills, for green jobs.
3. Green Empowerment and Youth Engagement: Youth are partners and supported to lead policy advocacy and the social dimension of the triple planetary crisis.
Green Jobs for Youth Pact Targets
- Develop 1 million new green jobs.
- Transform 1 million existing roles into green roles.
- Support 10,000 young green entrepreneurs in starting their businesses.
Learn more: Green Jobs for Youth Pact 2023: Regional Roll-Out | Green Policy Platform
What We Are Doing:
Green Skills and Employment
- The Youth Employment Academy hosted comprehensive training sessions in employment policies, with a specific focus on green job creation.
- Initiatives like UNICEF's BeGreen and EKYAN programs, as well as ILO's SIYB trainings, have equipped over 10,000 individuals with green skills and supported more than 1,500 young entrepreneurs in establishing sustainable businesses, including those in the often-overlooked blue economy sector.
Greening Education and Skills
- The regionalization efforts through GO4SDGs have made substantial progress across Africa, Asia Pacific, Central Asia and Europe, West Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
- The Green Skills Observatory, piloted in five regional hubs, is transforming green skills and jobs within higher and further education while also convening diverse stakeholders to identify essential competencies for a transitioning job market.
Green Empowerment and Youth Engagement
- The Green Jobs for Youth Pact is committed to leveraging youth-led initiatives to enhance green skilling and drive impactful environmental change. Such initiatives include UNEP-led Tide Turners Plastic Challenge, the world's largest youth-led movement against plastic pollution, and Green Rising, led by UNICEF and partners, mobilizing at least 10 million children and youth in developing countries to take grassroots action. The Youth Advisory Group plays a pivotal role in shaping the GJYP agenda, actively engaging in international, regional, and national forums.
Commit to Contribute: Form Live Now!
Governments, the private sector, education entities, and young leaders commit to the Green Jobs for Youth Pact—your measurable, time-bound actions can directly contribute to green employment for the youth. Commit to contribute to the Pact here.
A commitment is a concrete initiative that contributes to the goals of the Green Jobs for Youth Pact. It can include a variety of activities (contributions) such as employment creation, entrepreneurship, skills development, mentoring, youth engagement, capacity-building, advocacy, awareness-raising, funding, outreach and communication, and research.
Commitments must be ongoing or confirm upcoming initiatives and partnerships. Ongoing initiatives can be included if they continue to be implemented for at least one year. Meetings or events do not constitute a commitment, although they can be included as deliverables.
Commitment partners may provide monetary or in-kind contributions towards the overall objectives of the Pact.
The partnership is open to member states, the private sector, education and research institutions, foundations, non-profit organizations, employers and civil society.
