International Training Centre International Labour Organization (ITC ILO)
www.itcilo.org
HQ: Turin, Italy
Focal Point: Antonio Giangregorio
Email: [email protected]
*The Centre hosts its training activities on a campus, which includes a large residential accommodation facility (280 rooms), a Conference Centre, training and office facilities.
DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE
"Environmental Sustainability Policy acknowledging its responsibility for protecting the environment and affirming the principle of sustainability in the pursuit of its mandate and strategic objectives. This policy applies to the staff and to the whole community of the Centre, including visiting participants, external collaborators, service-providers and guests.
As a consequence, the Director Mr. Liu, has nominated a formal Environmental Sustainability Committee of members among the staff to ensure the Centre’s aims to pursue its mandate in an environmentally sustainable manner, to reduce and mitigate any negative impacts on the environment, and to improve its environmental performance by reducing the depletion of natural resources, preventing further damage to the environment and maintaining the goal of climate neutrality."
Mr. Yanguo Liu, Director of the International Training Centre of the ILO
MISSION
The Centre is the training arm of the International Labour Organization (ILO), a United Nations agency entrusted with promoting social justice, including internationally recognized human rights and labour standards.
The Centre’s main role is to deliver high quality, relevant and effective training, learning and capacity development services to the ILO constituents and other partners in support of the ILO Decent Work Agenda and the wider UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The Centre’s Board included in the Strategic Targets for the biennium 2018-19 the Outcome 7: Reduced Environmental Footprint
The Outcome is declined into three different measurable indicators, taking into account EMS and Waste reduction.
EMS AND REDUCTION EFFORTS
Indicator 7.3 of the 2018-19 Strategic Plan set as compulsory feasibility studies to obtain an independent Certification of Sustainable Operations, into the framework of an EMS.
Each year, as part of the Greening the Blue Report on Environmental Governance, each participating UN entity’s progress on the development of an Environmental Management System (EMS) is evaluated according to the UN system’s EMS criteria (these criteria are available on the Methodology webpage). Upon this evaluation the entity is then rated Exceeds, Meets, Approaches, or No response. For the 2022 reporting year, ITC-ILO’s progress on the EMS is rated as: Does not meet.
ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS AND STANDARDS IN POLICIES, PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES
For the 2022 reporting year, ITC-ILO’s status of implementing environmental and social safeguards and standards in their policies, projects and programmes is: Yes.
ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING FOR PERSONNEL
For the 2022 reporting year, ITC-ILO’s status on providing training on environmental sustainability is: Yes, but it is voluntary.
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT PLANS (IMPS)
Included: Carbon Footprint, waste and water. It does include facilities, air travel, land travel and all operations in general terms.
Excluded: Commuting
OFFSETTING
1,888 tCO2eq, which covers the entire organization were offset for 2017 with UNFCCC.
WASTE MANAGEMENT
We are implementing measuring ultrasound sensors in the waste dumpsters. This project will result in fine tuning our waste inventory and therefore corrective actions to reduce waste.
Waste reduction could be measured only as from 2019.
OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES
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Adoption of electric vehicles for all residential suppliers, including catering, cleaning, security and maintenance.
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Adoption of recharging infrastructure for electric vehicles.
- Adoption of plastic free policies both for staff and for suppliers, including hotel and catering management.
NEXT STEPS
We launched the so-called “100 days projects” as innovative projects to be delivered in the next 100 days. Among them, there are several related to sustainability (plastic ban, sustainable procurement, electric vehicles, innovative waste measurement, etc.)