# ASEAN Green Jobs Forum 2026 — Formal Closing Remarks

**20 October 2026, Manila · Working reconstruction based exclusively on the user-provided speech-to-text paste.**

**Source status:** User-provided text, containing automatic-transcription errors. This document is a thematic reconstruction, **not a verified verbatim transcript**. Speaker identities, exact wording and institutional titles must be checked against the official recording or proceedings. It follows the earlier 15:57–17:05 panel and should not be treated as a third transcript of that panel.

## A. Recorded video message attributed by the host to Thailand's labour leadership and chair

The video message congratulated participants on two days of discussions and outlined the importance of the just transition. It referred to: green employment opportunities; alignment of training with market demand; strengthened labour governance and social protection for affected workers; coordination across labour, environment, energy and education; social dialogue among governments, employers and workers; and labour-market information systems to guide decisions. It reaffirmed support for ASEAN Member States implementing the **ASEAN Framework and Action Plan for a Just and Inclusive Transition to Green Jobs (2025–2030)**, and appreciation for the Philippines and other organisers.

**Caution:** The ASR text is too corrupted to establish the speaker's personal name or formal office precisely. Do not assign a name based on this working record.

## B. Philippine host's concluding remarks

The speaker congratulated ASEAN delegates and partners, recalled the adoption of the 2025–2030 regional Framework and Action Plan under Malaysia's chairmanship, and stated that the green transition changes economic development, enterprise operations and workers' livelihoods. The closing speech set out **three reflections**:

### 1. Create real green-job demand

The speaker argued that skills training must be matched by firms and industries capable of hiring graduates and workers. Job creation is simultaneously an **economic and investment agenda**, requiring conditions that support green investment, commercially viable green enterprises, demand for sustainable products and services, and responsible conduct across supply chains. Examples mentioned included renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, circular-economy activities, cleaner manufacturing and climate-resilient infrastructure.

### 2. Strengthen employment-to-skills linkages

Education and training need to respond to observed and anticipated labour-market demand. Workers need pathways from learning to relevant employment and transitions between occupations. The speech called for stronger employer–worker–training-provider–government coordination, institutionalised social dialogue, and worker participation in decisions on technologies, workplace practice and job security. ASEAN can facilitate the exchange of successful education-to-employment practices, while allowing countries to adapt them to domestic circumstances.

### 3. Provide means of implementation and measure progress

The speaker urged that the Framework and Action Plan be supported by **climate finance, technical assistance and tangible resources**. The Philippines indicated support for regional technical cooperation and mutual recognition of green skills, and saw potential in an ASEAN Green Jobs Centre of Excellence that helps implement policy rather than only exchange information. The speaker called for evidence **by 2030** of green-job creation, workforce preparation, adaptation and widely shared benefits.

The speech reaffirmed **decent work, social protection, and inclusion of formal and informal workers** as essential criteria. It thanked the Philippines Department of Labor and Employment, Institute for Labor Studies and other organisers and partners.

## Evidence interpretation

- These points are **closing reflections delivered in an official forum setting**. They are not automatically an ASEAN-wide negotiated action list.
- Support for a Green Jobs Centre of Excellence or skills recognition is a stated preference, **not proof of establishment, financing or a formally agreed implementation mandate**.
- The transcription includes speech recognition errors in names, institutional titles and some phrases; the paraphrase avoids assigning unverifiable proper names.
- The previously supplied timestamped panel and alternative transcript cover the **prior policy discussion**, not these closing remarks.