Meeting global climate targets will lead to 8 million more energy jobs worldwide by 2050

(Cell Press) Researchers created a global dataset of job footprints in 50 countries and used a model to investigate how trying to meet the Paris Agreement global climate target of staying well below 2 ° C would affect energy sector jobs. They found that action to reach said target would increase net jobs by about 8 million by 2050, primarily due to gains in the solar and wind industries. The analysis appears July 23 in the journal One Earth.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news