Green jobs

Green jobs give people the opportunity ronmental groups is flipping the traditional story, and for learning – both on the job and through training creating a new way to see the environment and the programs. [...] A number by the term “green jobs.” Certainly there is a growing of other U. S. organizations have produced research and interest in the phenomenon, but it begs the question of conducted advocacy to create green jobs policies at the what is meant by the term; are they all jobs held by ecolo- local, state and federal level. [...] This built on the Green Jobs Initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the The report then considers the question of how many International Labour Organization, the International green jobs Alberta should aim to create. [...] In each of the three green job sectors, short-term and long-term poli- cies are needed to jump-start the transition to a green economy and get people back to work immediately and for the long term. [...] Many hundreds of thousands of coal mining jobs have been shed in China, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and South Africa during the last two decades, sometimes in the face of expand- ing production.” 47 In Alberta, until recently, the expansion of unconven- tional fossil fuels - coal-bed methane (CBM) and the tar sands - concealed a significant ongoing decline in the labour rate fo