UN Regional Forum for Sustainable Development for Europe and Central Asia - Roundtable (SDG 8)

1. How can the green transition be designed to maximize economic growth and decent job creation while ensuring social inclusion, equity and respect for both human and labour rights and standards?  

2. How can resource efficiency, circular economy approaches, and innovation be leveraged to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation? 

3. What are the key policies and strategies for Leaving No-One Behind and equipping workers - including informal sector workers, youth, women, older workers, migrants and persons with disabilities - with the skills needed for a green economy, particularly in the regions and sectors most affected by decarbonization? 

4. How can entrepreneurship and innovation be harnessed to accelerate green growth and to generate benefits and opportunities for all?​

2. Ensuring a Just Digital Transition in the context of demographic shifts 

1. How can digitalization and innovation be harnessed to achieve sustainable economic growth and decent work in an inclusive digital economy? 

2. What policies and investments are needed to close digital skills gaps and to guarantee equal access to digital skills training, particularly for those facing barriers to access employment and education e.g., informal sector workers, youth, women, older workers, migrants and persons with disabilities? 

3. How can labour and social protection policies adapt to a rapidly evolving world addressing challenges related to platform work, automation, and AI while ensuring fair working conditions and decent employment opportunities based on fundamental principles and rights at work? 
   

4. How can digitalization enhance labour market matching, including for migrant workers, while ensuring fair working conditions and labour protection? ​
   

1. How can age, gender-responsive and migration inclusive policies expand access to digital and green job opportunities, fostering innovation and entrepreneurship? ​

2. What are some effective approaches or schemes within the region that can be scaled up to better match migrant workers’ skills and entrepreneurship with market needs while ensuring fair working conditions? 

3. What investments and incentives are needed to create decent jobs, transform entrepreneurial ideas into viable businesses, and ensure economic resilience in the digital and green transition? 

4. What types of regulations are needed in the context of a just and digital transition to ensure fairness, promote inclusion in social protection systems, guarantee fair contracts, and support the right to collective bargaining to uphold fundamental labour rights? 

5. What role does social dialogue play in addressing policy challenges to foster productive enterprises, promote a fairer economy, build a more stable and equitable society, and support labour market transitions through the development of equitable policies?
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Agenda