Climate Decent Work Risk Assessment

Interactive visualisation with our Climate-Decent Work Risk Assessment in agriculture in Brazil

Author

Affiliation

Edgar Rodriguez-Huerta

University of Nottingham, Rights Lab

Which regions experience the highest levels of extreme heat exposure combined with excessive working hours?

Which population groups face the most severe deficits in decent working conditions, based on measurable indicators such as wages, job security, occupational safety, and access to social protection?

Which crops are most at risk due to inadequate environmental safeguards and the highest levels of agrochemical exposure, and how are these risks distributed across agricultural systems?

The visualisation allows you to combine each element of decent work as well as climate hazards to answer your own questions.

Our assessment builds on the framework developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which defines climate risk as the product of three interacting factors: hazards (the climate threats), exposure (who and what is in harm’s way), and vulnerability (how susceptible people are to those threats). We adapted this framework specifically to examine climate risks through a decent work lens, understating as a multi-faceted concept comprised of 10 core elements linked to the five strategic pillars of the ILO’s decent work agenda, intended to improve working conditions.

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