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This is a very interesting article I have come across today which I wanted to share.
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The transition from high to low carbon energy infrastructure will deliver a net increase in global employment of 2.7 million jobs by 2030, despite the inevitable loss of jobs in declining fossil fuel industries.

That is the conclusion of a major new study released yesterday by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council, which predicts that fast-expanding renewable energy industries, as well as energy efficiency programmes, will prove more labour intensive than the conventional energy technologies they replace, helping to boost employment worldwide.

The report is partly based on research from the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney and a low carbon scenario set out by Greenpeace last year which outlined how the world could deliver a nine-fold increase in renewable energy supplies by 2030.

Read the complete article here:
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2249443/report-switch-low-carbon-energy

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