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At OECD’s Side Event: 12 Wed Dec Noon: Tidal Room
Trade Unions to Confront OECD’s
Climate Change Approaches
Bali Indonesia – 11 December, 2007
Trade unions at the Global climate change meeting in Bali aim to question the climate change
approaches of developed nations that will be highlighted at a side-event here on Wednesday 12
December at 12-noon by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The Trade unionists aim to deliver a clear message to the OECD’s General Secretary Angel Gurria
and government representatives from Mexico, New Zealand, Norway and The Netherlands – all
accompanied by the RIO TINTO multinational corporation.
“For the sake of our planet, the social dimension of climate change must find a real place within the
OECD policy and action for climate change”, says Eugenio Del Valle Rivas from the Mexican
‘Confederacion Revolucionaria de Obreros Y Campesinos’, who will speak for a whole group of
trade unionists from OECD and other countries.
He said employment and social issues for all workers, and especially the poorest and most
vulnerable, cannot continue to show up as words in documents with no real follow up. “The
OECD’s climate polices are severely distorted in favor of multinational corporations and rich
nations”
The Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD has requested to make a formal presentation to
the meeting but has not yet received a reply.
Trade union representatives from throughout the world will show their support for Del Valle Rivas at
the event :