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Breakdown of Renewable Energy Jobs Around the World
According to a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) the industry currently employs 5.7M people. Most of the jobs are in China, the EU, Brazil, US and India. Here is a quick summary of the number of jobs in each of the top three nations as well international forecasts for the future :
China
China is the world leader in renewable energy jobs and currently has 1.74M people working in the sector. This represents one in three renewable energy jobs around the world. Most of China's renewable employment is in the solar.
Brazil
Brazil ranks second and has 14% of all renewable jobs around the world. The nation currently employs 833K people in renewables out of which 804K are in biofuels and the remainder are mostly in wind.
US
The US ranks third with 620K people working in the sector.
The Future
The future for renewable energy jobs looks very promising. According to the IRENA report, with favorable policies bioenergy will add 9.7M jobs by 2030. Wind is expected to add 2.1M jobs and solar energy is expected to generate another 2M, all in the same period.
Overall renewable energy has the potential to add an additional 11M new jobs between now and 2030; so in fact employment in the renewable energy sector is expected to be around 16.7M positions in 2030.
To see the IRENA report click here.
© 2014, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.
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Event (Symposium) Green Growth, Green Jobs: Integrating Employment and Environmental Policies Across Europe
A key objective of Europe 2020, the strategy for growth and jobs, is to address the need for sustainable and inclusive growth through the promotion of a competitive and greener economy in the EU. As part of the strategy, the EU has committed to offer its support to businesses so they can achieve the shift to a greener economy whilst remaining competitive on the global stage.
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Breaking News - Keystone XL Pipeline on the Ropes: Conflict of Interest Revealed in the State's EIS
The proposed Keystone XL would ferry diluted bitumen from Alberta's tar sands to US Gulf Coast refineries. Because the pipeline crosses international borders, the project requires State Department approval. Questions about the impartiality of the State Department environmental impact statement (EIS) will likely delay the final verdict on the pipeline and may very well kill it altogether.
The US Environmental Protection Agency slammed the State Department's original report for grossly misrepresenting the environmental threats posed by the pipeline.
The reports of the conflict of interest were unearthed by Brad Johnson in a Grist post which revealed that ERM was paid by TransCanada. Another report by DeSmogBlog revealed that ERM is a dues-paying member of the American Petroleum Institute.
As reported by Zack Coleman at The Hill, these findings were confirmed by State Department spokesman Doug Welty.
The Keystone XL looks as though it may finally succumb to a barrage of blows. First the pipeline was hit by President's blatant rebuff of the projects job benefits, then from an oil leak in Alberta's tar sands, and now from the State Department's acknowledgement of conflict of interest.
While it appears that TransCanada's American dream may be coming to an end, we would do well to remember that in both 2011 and 2012 the Keystone XL seemed to be dead, yet managed to revive. It remains to be seen whether the pipeline can recover from this most recent blow.
Even if this pipeline does die, TransCanada's hydrocarbon hydra has already found a new pipeline pathway to ferry its dirty dilbit to world markets.
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As reported in The Hill, the President told attendees at Amazon.com’s Chattanooga, Tenn., distribution facility, “Putting all your eggs in the basket of an oil pipeline that may only create about 50 permanent jobs, and wasting the country’s time by taking something like 40 meaningless votes to repeal ObamaCare isn’t a jobs plan.”
The comments were part of a speech in which the President reviewed his economic plan. Obama's remarks clearly targeted Republicans who continue to try to tout the pipeline as an important part of a national jobs plan.
The President's claim that the Keystone XL will only provide a very limited number of jobs was reiterated earlier this week by the State Department which said the project would have a “negligible” impact on the US employment picture.
Obama continues to advocate for jobs in clean energy and resist calls from the House to cut government support for renewables.
“Now is the time to double down on renewables, and biofuels, and electric vehicles, and the research that will shift our cars and trucks off oil for good,” Obama said.
While environmentalists are lauding the President for his stance on clean energy employment they continue to decry his support for jobs from fracking for natural gas.
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