The report “Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World” represents the first comprehensive and authoritative report which provides an overview of the complexity and policy relevance of global environmental challenges — climate change — and employment.
It gathers data on employment on different sectors — renewable energy, energy efficiency in buildings, sustainable transportation, and organic agriculture — and draws conclusions and recommendations for policy makers, business and industry, workers and trade unions in the context of the transition towards a low-carbon economy, which may yield a real potential, and yet is faced with formidable challenges.
The pace of green job creation is likely to accelerate in the years ahead. A global transition to a low-carbon and sustainable economy can create large numbers of green jobs across many sectors of the economy, and indeed can become an engine of development. Current green job creation is taking place in both the rich countries and in some of the major developing economies.
The report emphasises the need for increased investment to create green jobs, facilitate the just transition from a traditional to a low-carbon economy, and further analyses the major shifts in employments and skills patterns.
Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World
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Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World (Policy messages and main findings for decision makers)
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Khatun's Green Revenge
Cleaning the environment and securing a sustainable future for the planet can create millions of green jobs. In India the Self Employed Women’s Association – SEWA – has brought together over a million women toiling in the informal sector and is already putting into practice each and every element of a sustainable green economy.
Green future for women in India
From garment workers earning less than a dollar a day to engineers in renewable energy. In Bangladesh the Grameen Shakti have 2 million solar panels installed and creating women entrepreneurs, they are providing green energy, a green economy and green jobs providing a decent living to local women.
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Greening Jobs
Consumers in North America throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour plastic bottles that can be recycled, along with other materials we dispose of daily such as paper, metals and glass. In Brazil, energy company Endessa has come up with an innovative solution to encourage people to recycle free energy in exchange for garbage! The programme is having remarkable results.
