For three months, the Future Labs brought together workers, leaders, and experts from the climate and trade union fields in key sectors for the energy transition, through conversation circles and co-creation activities, to transform their experiences and concerns into concrete public policy proposals.
The methodology used was developed in partnership with the Procomum Institute, based on its Citizen Labs, and adapted to the trade union reality, enabling workers to propose solutions that ensure a truly just energy transition.
Each idea was born from listening and from the certainty that a just transition only happens if it is built with those who experience work every day.
Sectors
Cities
Workers and leaders
with metalworkers, debating the impacts of electrification and the future of the automotive industry.
with oil workers, reflecting on energy sovereignty and the decarbonization of the sector.
with oil workers, discussing transformations and possibilities for the sector in the local territory.
with urban utility workers, discussing the role of renewable energy, rights, and fair tariffs.
From each meeting, concrete public policy proposals emerged and were systematized into three sectoral booklets—one for each category involved.
The proposals address topics such as vocational training, workforce retraining, job security and quality, strengthening local economies and communities, and governance of the energy transition. Together, they form an agenda that translates workers’ experiences into real pathways for the future of energy in Brazil.
In Brasília, we experienced a milestone of this journey: the delivery of workers’ proposals to Alice Amorim (COP30 Presidency), Vinicius Pinheiro (International Labour Organization – ILO Brazil), and Aloísio Lopes Pereira de Melo (Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change).
In a special edition of the coffee of the Frente Parlamentar Mista Ambientalista, coordinated by Federal Deputy Nilto Tatto (PT–SP), we brought together parliamentarians and trade union leaders to present the proposals in the Noble Hall of the Chamber of Deputies.
Produced by:
Aurora Lab
Methodological partnership:
Instituto Procomum
Institutional partnership:
Federação Única dos Petroleiros, Confederação Nacional dos Urbanitários, Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos do ABC, Federação Regional dos Urbanitários do Nordeste e Sindicato dos Petroleiros do Rio Grande do Norte