This year, we joined global and local leaders in advancing bold, community-driven solutions to the climate crisis highlighting the vital role of grassroots action in transforming systems for a just and sustainable future.
of the global labour force is made up of informal workers — with an even higher percentage in South and Southeast Asia, indicating how deeply informal employment is embedded in value chains.
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(million) the approximate number of people in South Asia who are projected to be internally displaced due to climate change by 2050, many of whom are expected to enter precarious informal work.
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of orders in a major study across South and Southeast Asia involved unauthorized subcontracting that used informal labour — exposing deep informality even in supply chains linked to international brands.
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(trillion) estimated contribution of informal workers to the combined GDP of Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, and Vietnam out of a total of $6.8 trillion.
