Green jobs and green skills in a brown Philippine economy background country study - Ofreneo, Rene E. (Quezon City University of the Philippines Press, 2012)
Part one: Greening and skilling challenges in a brown economy -- Chapter 1: Overview: Philippine environment, environmentalism and economy -- Population, poverty, and environment -- Major environmental problems -- Other environmental problems -- Environmental movement and policy responses -- Environmental policies, laws, and responses -- The Climate Change Act and the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act -- The CDM process -- The environment and the economic crisis -- Environmental education and awareness-raising -- Chapter 2: Green job creation and greener job transformation -- Anticipation and provision of skills: green restructuring and green capacity building -- No tectonic green shift in the economy ... yet! -- Study framework on green restructuring -- The conduct and selection of case studies -- Green structural change and training/retraining needs -- Case studies on greener firms and greener HRD/skills development -- Training/retraining needs in green restructuring: lessons from case studies -- Green-collar occupations -- Green-collar case studies -- Greening existing occupations -- Case studies on greening existing occupations -- Skills development evident from the case studies -- Chapter 3: Greening challenges in a post-Ondoy and post-Cancun Philippines -- The people's framework strategies on climate change -- Gearing for La Nina and El Nino -- The Philippines in the COP-16 at Cancun -- LGUs at the forefront of CC adaptation -- Greening "shifts" in the Philippine economy and labor market -- Greening "shifts" in the communities too -- Implications on skills and HRD development -- Policy recommendations: economy, environment, education and skills development -- Part two: Case studies -- Case study 1: Philippine Association Smelting and Refinery Corporation -- Case study 2: Halsangz Plating Cebu Corporation (HPCC) -- Case study 3: Toyota Motors Philippines Corporation -- San carlos Bioenergy, Inc. -- Energy Development Corporation -- Metal Wealth Enterprises Co. -- Jollibee Foods Corporation -- Haribon Foundation -- Negros Island Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Foundation, Inc. -- Appendices -- Appendix A: List of registered CDM projects in the Philippines -- Appendix B: The people's framework strategies on climate change -- Appendix c: La Nina summit declaration.
Co-published by International Labor Office, Geneva.
Keywords: Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Philippines; Job creation -- Philippines; Environmental protection -- Vocational guidance; Environmental economics -- Philippines; Sustainable development -- Philippines