Eurofound Talks
Eurofound Talks
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Episode 25
16 October 2024

As alterações climáticas estão a tornar o trabalho mais perigoso na Europa?

Climate change is a reality in our everyday lives in Europe. Workers experience the effects of climate change and climate change policy in many ways, both directly and indirectly, from working in heat and experiencing greater exposure to UV radiation, to new occupational safety and health risks and the need for training and re-skilling.

In this episode of Eurofound Talks Mary McCaughey speaks with Eurofound researchers Agnès Parent-Thirion, Tina Weber and Jorge Cabrita about the extent to which climate change is already influencing working conditions and the labour market in Europe, the role of the green transition, and how policy can help protect workers and safeguard workplaces.

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Mary McCaughey

Head of Unit
Information and Communication

Mary McCaughey é Chefe de Informação e Comunicação da Eurofound. Formada pelo Trinity College, Dublin e pelo College of Europe, Bruges, ela começou a trabalhar em Bruxelas com a Europolitics e o Wall Street Journal Europe. Trabalhou com a Associação de Parlamentares Europeus com África (AWEPA) na África do Sul durante a transição do país para a democracia e, em 1998, assumiu o cargo de porta-voz da Delegação da União Europeia em Pretória, chefiando o seu departamento de imprensa e informação durante a negociação do acordo de comércio livre UE-África do Sul. Após o fim da Guerra do Kosovo, ela trabalhou como consultora de comunicação para a Agência Europeia de Reconstrução na Sérvia. Ela assumiu o cargo de editora-chefe da Eurofound em 2003.

Agnès Parent-Thirion

Senior research manager
Working life research

Agnès Parent-Thirion é gestora sénior de investigação na unidade de Vida Profissional da Eurofound, encarregada do planeamento, desenvolvimento e implementação de projetos de investigação sobre as condições de trabalho, em particular o Inquérito Europeu sobre as Condições de Trabalho (EWCS) e as suas análises. É responsável pela edição extraordinária do EWCS 2021 e pela elaboração do questionário para o EWCS 2024. Seus interesses de pesquisa incluem condições de trabalho, qualidade do trabalho, monitoramento das condições de trabalho, organização do trabalho, gênero, futuro do trabalho e tempo. Ela trabalha na área de pesquisas comparativas europeias há mais de uma década, em todos os aspectos, incluindo design, desenvolvimento de questionários, trabalho de campo, controle de qualidade e análise. Ela é graduada em economia e administração pelas universidades Paris IX Dauphine e Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne e possui um diploma de pós-graduação em estatística pelo Trinity College Dublin. Ela concluiu recentemente cursos on-line sobre inteligência artificial: liderança orientada por investigação com o MIT Sloan Executive Education e 'Les grand enjeux de la transition: re-ouvrir l'horizon, comprendre pour agir' com o Campus de la Transition. Antes de ingressar na Eurofound, trabalhou durante vários anos na Comissão Europeia.

Tina Weber

Senior research manager
Working life research

Tina Weber is a senior research manager in Eurofound’s Working Life unit. Her work has focused on labour shortages, the impact of hybrid work and an ‘always on’ culture and the right to disconnect, working conditions and social protection measures for self-employed workers and the impact of the twin transitions on employment, working conditions and industrial relations. She is responsible for studies assessing the representativeness of European social partner organisations. She has also carried out research on European Works Councils and the evolution of industrial relations and social dialogue in the European Union. Prior to joining Eurofound in 2019, she worked for a private research institute primarily carrying out impact assessments and evaluations of EU labour law and labour market policies. Tina holds a PhD in Political Sciences from the University of Edinburgh which focussed on the role of national trade unions and employers’ organisations in the European social dialogue.

Jorge Cabrita

Senior research manager
Working life research

Jorge Cabrita is a senior research manager in the Working Life unit. He is responsible for formulating, coordinating and managing European-wide research, and promoting the dissemination of findings in the areas of working conditions and industrial relations. His main research areas of interest include working conditions and job quality, working time and work–life balance, workers’ health and well-being, gender equality and the socioeconomic impacts of the transition to a climate-neutral economy. He is currently leading research on working time developments and on social dialogue and collective bargaining during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, he worked as a researcher at the Centre for Studies for Social Intervention and at the Research Centre on the Portuguese Economy of the Lisbon School of Economics, and as a trainer and consultant in the areas of strategic management, organisational communication, leadership and team building. He holds a BSc in Economics and an MSc in Socio-Organisational Systems of Economic Activity from the Lisbon School of Economics.

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