Climate Justice, Green Jobs and Sustainable Production in BC by Marc Lee and Kenneth I. Carlaw SEPTEMBER 2010 Climate Justice Project CLIMATE JUSTICE, GREEN JOBS AND SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION IN BC by Marc Lee and Kenneth I. Carlaw September 2010 Climate Justice, Green Jobs and Sustainable Production in BC is part of the Climate Justice Project, a research alliance led by CCPA-BC and the University o [...] The opinions in this report, and any errors, are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publishers or funders of this report. [...] In “business as usual” the case of BC, the impact on the province’s forests due to the mountain pine beetle is practices and our perhaps the most compelling local example of climate change and the need for action. [...] In this paper we seek to construct a preliminary, integrated framework for analysis of a sustainable economy, and to launch a dialogue about strategies the BC government can undertake to accelerate the transition to such an economy by creating a new generation of well-paying “green jobs.” We assemble some baseline information about green jobs in the BC context, and associated CLIMATE JUSTICE, GREE [...] Ecological economics recognizes that while in the technological the economy is a sub-set of the biosphere, and places its emphasis on the inflows of materi- cycle non-organic, non- als and energy, and the outflow of wastes, into production and consumption activities.