The Minister of the Environment, Cristina Narbona, participates in the Trade Union Assembly on Labour and Environment that is being held in Nairobi, Kenya, from yesterday until tomorrow, organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), Sustainlabour and Global Compact.

Cristina Narbona, who is the only foreign minister to take part in the meeting, will make her contribution tomorrow, at 10:30 a.m., before the Plenary “How do others see the recommendations of trade unions?”, with the presentation “Work and environment for sustainable development”.

The Minister of the Environment will focus her speech on the need to implement a more sustainable global development model, which involves the whole of society, from companies to citizens, in order to counteract social inequalities and the serious environmental deterioration caused by certain models still in force, within the framework of a globalization focused until now on the total liberalization of capital and free trade. conceived with serious asymmetries.

In this regard, Cristina Narbona will highlight the commitment of the Spanish Government to the reorientation of our development model, with the full participation of workers through the most representative trade union organisations, as well as Spain’s contribution to the different international programmes and actions that promote sustainable development.

Narbona comes to this Assembly in the context of the permanent support that the Ministry of the Environment provides to trade unions to participate in the planning and management of environmental policy. In fact, Spanish trade union organisations have an active presence in the National Council for the Environment and in other consultative bodies of the Ministry.