The EU and Africa must cooperate bilaterally and also work together on the international stage to promote our shared interest: tackling climate change, making progress towards the MDGs and promoting peace and security, democratic governance and human rights.

The limits of the mutually supportive or antagonistic relationship between the world trading system and policies on climate change are the subject of the report we are discussing.

As Prof. Boyd said, to combat climate change, we have to achieve global objectives in the order of 25 billion tonnes, and Canada in all that only constitutes a very small part.

active and preventative measures for the unemployed and inactive job creation and entrepreneurship address change and promote adaptability and mobility in the labour market promote development of human capital and lifelong learning increase labour supply and promote active ageing gender equality promote the integration of and combat the discrimination against people at a disadvantage in the labour market make work pay through incentives to enhance work attractiveness transform undeclared work into regular employment address regional employment disparities

demands that the Employment Guidelines should address: active and preventive measures for the unemployed and inactive; making work pay; increasing labour supply and participation; entrepreneurship, change and adaptability; the development of human capital and life-long learning; gender equality; integration and discrimination in the labour market; and regional employment disparities; while taking into account that transforming undeclared work into regular employment is also a key issue of the Employment Strategy which should be addressed in parallel with the effect of ...[+++] immigration on labour markets.

In order to enhance the productivity of labour and expand the demand for labour the following could be pursued: - ensure that the macro-economic policies support broad based economic growth and widespread distribution of its benefits; - promote equitable access to assets such as skills, land, credit, capital and technology, to enhance work opportunities in rural and urban areas and the productivity of work, in particular for women ; - support the formulation and implementation by partner countries - as part of partners' overall strategy to reduce poverty - of consistent overall employment strategies on the basis of a commitment to acce ...[+++]lerate the increase in productive employment in the private sector with the aim of having an economic policy which should be both job and productivity-driven ; - support the development of an environment favourable to small enterprises and micro-enterprises, including those in the informal sector through, inter alia, the provision of appropriate and efficient credit facilities, notably micro- credit; - support improvements in quality/relevance and the expansion of education and training systems including lifelong learning; no sustainable increases in employment and productivity can be achieved without raising the qualifications and responsiveness of human resources to economic change; - where appropriate, promote labour-intensiveness of investment in economic and social infrastructures that use local resources and provide for their effective integration into the local socio-economic context. c) Health Under the "Horizon 2000" initiative, the Council has identified health as a major priority of development aid and of coordination between the Community and Member States.