Introduction -- 1. Defining and describing green jobs -- Defining green jobs -- Surveying individual green sectors -- Defining Canada's environmental sector -- Greening existing jobs -- Characteristics of green jobs -- 2. The employment effects of GHG emission-reduction policies -- Estimating the jobs created by specific climate policies with localized input-output -- Modelling -- Economy-wide analysis of job impacts from emission reduction policies -- 3. The relative job effects of choosing clean energy -- Electricity generation -- Employment and fossil fuel extraction -- Employment effects of a greener stimulus -- Competing for clean energy jobs -- 4. Policy recommendations -- Areas for further research -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Green jobs research at Human Resources and Skills Development Canada -- Appendix 2: Representative jobs from clean energy investments
Summary
There is a growing body of research connecting action to tackle climate change, or to improve environmental quality, with employment. And there are a growing number of leaders who present action to tackle climate change as having economic and employment benefits, by allowing their countries to play a leading role in supplying clean technologies to a rapidly growing global market
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"March 2011"--PDF title page
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
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Online resource; title from PDF version (Library and Archives Canada Electronic Collection, viewed January 18, 2021)
