Green jobs assessment reports

GAIN members use the GAIN methodology to develop green jobs assessments. These assessments analyse the employment impact of green policies, thus helping policymakers to make informed decisions based on state-of-the-art empirical methods and evidence-based research. Although sharing a common vision and methodological framework, GAIN Reports vary in scope, context, and specific objectives, depending on country needs and capacities.

See below the published reports:

  1. Zimbabwe

    Zimbabwe Green Jobs Assessment Report

    2021

    This study assess the social, employment and economic impacts of Zimbabwe’s climate policies. Impacts on the labour market, gender, economic growth and emissions are assessed. Renewable energy policies dominate investments notably into hydropower and solar power, resulting in the largest employment gains of all planned policies with a total of around 350,000 by 2035.

  2. Nigeria

    Nigeria Green Jobs Assessment Report

    2021

    One of the main questions in climate policymaking is to understand the economic and social costs and benefits. The potentional to create employment that these policies offer is of particular concern to developing and emerging economies with a young population that face structural challenges to generating sufficient employment opportunities for a growing number of labour market entrants.

  3. Tunisia

    Green Jobs in Tunisia: Measuring Methods and Model Results

    2018

    The current system of production is exponentially increasing the pressure on the environment, undermining world’s natural wealth and putting humans at risk by fuelling the negative effects of climate change. Within the context of the green growth scenarios envisaged in the Paris Agreement of 2015, this report studies the case of Tunisia and seeks to quantitatively analyse the extent of decent green jobs that currently exist in the country as well as the potential implications of such scenarios for Tunisian labour markets. Using the Input-Output (IO) economic modelling methodology, the study concludes that, assuming massive investment, the direct and indirect effects of a green jobs strategy could yield 272,000 green jobs in Tunisia by 2030.

  4. India

    Assessment and Model of Green Jobs Potential in India

    2018

    The key purpose of this study is to understand the prevalence of green jobs in India by developing a national-level green input-output (IO) table. Six sectors are specifically analysed: the four green sectors of forestry and logging, watershed development, wind energy, and metro transport services, and the two related sectors of wind turbine generator (WTG) manufacturing and rail transport services (other than metro).

  5. Uruguay

    Empleos verdes para un desarrollo sostenible. El caso Uruguayo

    2016

    Este estudio presenta una estimación del número actual de empleos verdes en Uruguay y su contribución al PIB. Basado en datos cuantitativos y cualitativos, el estudio intenta relevar evidencia de la calidad de los empleos existentes en sectores sostenibles en Uruguay. De esta manera el estudio sirve no solo para instalar una línea base para el desarrollo de acciones orientadas a favorecer la creación de empleos verdes sino también a reconocer cuales son las oportunidades y debilidades en el contexto de Uruguay.

  6. The Philippines

    Green jobs mapping study in the Philippines

    2014

    This desk research report is the initial step in mapping existing green jobs in the Philippine labour market, based on available published data from government as well as non-government sources.

  7. Mexico

    Green jobs in Mexico

    2014

    This report summarizes the main findings of a national green jobs assessment conducted in Mexico in 2013. The assessment revealed how many green jobs currently exist in the country and which sectors show the strongest potential for further green jobs creation.

  8. Malaysia

    Green jobs mapping study in Malaysia

    2014

    The mapping study was conducted to estimate and identify green jobs in Malaysia and identified potential challenges to developing a greener economy with green jobs and decent work.

  9. Mauritius

    Green jobs assessment: Mauritius

    2008-2012

    This report provides an assessment of existent and potential green jobs in major economic industries of a small island developing state: Mauritius. It aims to inform and shape the Maurice Île Durable (MID) project, which was launched in 2008 with the objective to make Mauritius a world model of sustainable development.

  10. Gaza Strip

    Towards sustainable construction and green jobs in the Gaza Strip

    2012

    The assessment analyses the feasibility, opportunities and challenges of promoting sustainable construction in the Gaza Strip and explores ways to promote green jobs.

  11. Lebanon

    Green Jobs Assessement in Lebanon

    2011

    The study comprises four assessments in the sectors of energy, building and construction, agriculture and waste management in Lebanon.

  12. Bangladesh

    Estimating green jobs in Bangladesh

    2010

    The report summarizes the main findings of a study on the scale and distribution of green employment in the economy of Bangladesh.

  13. China

    Study on green employment in China

    2010

    This study presents both the current situation and potential for green employment in China, as well as results of surveys conducted in eight companies in the power industry.

  14. Brazil

    Empregos verdes no Brasil: quantos são, onde estão e como evoluirão nos próximos anos

    2009

    (In Portuguese)