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ENVIROMENT: ‘Green jobs’ to outweigh losses from climate change

Climate change is creating millions of ‘green jobs’ in sectors from solar power to biofuels that will slightly exceed layoffs elsewhere in the economy, a UN report said.

Union experts at UN climate talks in Bali, Indonesia, said the findings might ease worries among many workers that tougher environmental standards could mean an overall loss of jobs for many countries. New research reveals that these jobs are not for just the middle classes — the so-called ‘green collar’ jobs — but also for workers in construction, sustainable forestry and agriculture, engineering and transportation,” researchers said.

The study of ‘Green Jobs’ around the world said that measures to promote ethanol in Brazil, for instance, had created 500,000 jobs. In China, 150,000 people were employed in solar heating, a sector with sales revenues in 2005 of $2.5 million. And it said that renewable energy programmes in Spain and Germany, such as in promoting wind power, had “already created several hundred thousand jobs”. reuters

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