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STORY: ILO / SOCIAL PROTECTION REPORT
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DATELINE: 12 SEPTEMBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / UGUST 2024, DEL CARMEN, SIARGAO ISLANDS, SURIGAO DEL NORTE, PHILIPPINES
12 SEPTEMBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, Mia Seppo, ILO Assistant Director-General at press conference room
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Seppo, Assistant Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Worldwide 3.8 billion people, predominantly in the Global South lack any form of social protection, leaving them unprepared for life cycle risks and environmental challenges that lie ahead. The stark disparity in the right to social protection is a reflection of our deeply divided world. The most urgent challenge is protecting those at the frontline of the climate crisis.”
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Seppo, Assistant Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Children are particularly vulnerable to climate crisis and will have increased needs for protection.”
5. Wide shot, Seppo at press conference room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Seppo, Assistant Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Filling these gaps to guarantee minimum social protection for everyone requires concerted international cooperation.”
7. Med shot, Seppo speaking
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Seppo, Assistant Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“The climate crisis implications on the world of work is the most pressing and urgent threat that we have. And the bad news is that the countries at the frontline of the climate crisis are the least prepared, and they need to be protected. The good news is we don't need to reinvent the wheel. We actually know what to do. We need to work to ensure universal social protection. This will help the countries to prepare through making sure there's access to unemployment, to health, to emergency payments, and by doing so, making sure that the most vulnerable are protected from the climate crisis.”
9. Med shot, Seppo speaking
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Seppo, Assistant Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Social protection is both an enabler and a cushion to allow for helping countries prepare for the green transition. By ensuring that countries have social protection, they will be more prepared in terms of making sure workers have the skills and the knowledge to find jobs in green and low carbon economies. And by doing so, we actually make the transitions more palatable, both for workers and for employers
and for societies at large. This will make a just transition possible.”
AUGUST 2024, DEL CARMEN, SIARGAO ISLANDS, SURIGAO DEL NORTE, PHILIPPINES
11. Wide shot, Jonalyn Millana walking through a field
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonalyn Millana, Health Monitor, Cash for Work Activity, International Labour Organization (ILO) Rebuilding Better Coconut Economy - ILO Project with the Government of Japan:
“We should all know the value of climate change because we don't when the weather will change.
13. Wide shot, Millana walking through a field
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonalyn Millana, Health Monitor, Cash for Work Activity, International Labour Organization (ILO) Rebuilding Better Coconut Economy - ILO Project with the Government of Japan:
“When it comes to social safety, like a health insurance, we don't know when a typhoon will hit. We don't know what happens next. We don't need to spend money because health insurance will cover it, especially for your children.”
15. Wide shot, Millana monitoring agricultural worker
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonalyn Millana, Health Monitor, Cash for Work Activity, International Labour Organization (ILO) Rebuilding Better Coconut Economy - ILO Project with the Government of Japan:
“I am more protected now because if anything happens, I will have something to receive like for example insurances like PhilHealth (health insurance), SSS (social security). I am very thankful to have been given such benefits. What I think now is that I feel safer because I have social protection.”
17. Med shot, Millana monitoring agricultural worker
Social protection plays a key role in countering climate change impact but countries most impacted by the climate crisis are the least prepared. Governments must do more to utilize universal social protection to adapt to and mitigate the impact of climate change and achieve a just transition, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report.
Presenting the report today (12 Sep) in Geneva, the ILO Assistant Director-General Mia Seppo, said, “the stark disparity in the right to social protection is a reflection of our deeply divided world.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Seppo, Assistant Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Worldwide 3.8 billion people, predominantly in the Global South lack any form of social protection, leaving them unprepared for life cycle risks and environmental challenges that lie ahead. The stark disparity in the right to social protection is a reflection of our deeply divided world. The most urgent challenge is protecting those at the frontline of the climate crisis.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Seppo, Assistant Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Children are particularly vulnerable to climate crisis and will have increased needs for protection.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Seppo, Assistant Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Filling these gaps to guarantee minimum social protection for everyone requires concerted international cooperation.”
According to the report, governments are failing to make full use of the powerful potential of social protection to counter the effects of the climate crisis and support a just transition.
SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Seppo, Assistant Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“The climate crisis implications on the world of work is the most pressing and urgent threat that we have. And the bad news is that the countries at the frontline of the climate crisis are the least prepared, and they need to be protected. The good news is we don't need to reinvent the wheel. We actually know what to do. We need to work to ensure universal social protection. This will help the countries to prepare through making sure there's access to unemployment, to health, to emergency payments, and by doing so, making sure that the most vulnerable are protected from the climate crisis.
The report also finds that those countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change often have the lowest levels of social protection.
SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Seppo, Assistant Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Social protection is both an enabler and a cushion to allow for helping countries prepare for the green transition. By ensuring that countries have social protection, they will be more prepared in terms of making sure workers have the skills and the knowledge to find jobs in green and low carbon economies. And by doing so, we actually make the transitions more palatable, both for workers and for employers
and for societies at large. This will make a just transition possible.”
Jonalyn Millana is a Health Monitor in the ILO’s cash for work activity Rebuilding Better Coconut Economy project with the government of Japan.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jonalyn Millana, Health Monitor, Cash for Work Activity, International Labour Organization (ILO) Rebuilding Better Coconut Economy - ILO Project with the Government of Japan:
“We should all know the value of climate change because we don't when the weather will change.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jonalyn Millana, Health Monitor, Cash for Work Activity, International Labour Organization (ILO) Rebuilding Better Coconut Economy - ILO Project with the Government of Japan:
“When it comes to social safety, like a health insurance, we don't know when a typhoon will hit. We don't know what happens next. We don't need to spend money because health insurance will cover it, especially for your children.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Jonalyn Millana, Health Monitor, Cash for Work Activity, International Labour Organization (ILO) Rebuilding Better Coconut Economy - ILO Project with the Government of Japan:
“I am more protected now because if anything happens, I will have something to receive like for example insurances like PhilHealth (health insurance), SSS (social security). I am very thankful to have been given such benefits. What I think now is that I feel safer because I have social protection.”
The World Social Protection Report 2024-26: Universal Social Protection for Climate Action and a Just Transition finds that for the first time more than half of the global population (52.4 percent) has some form of social protection coverage.
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