Green jobs assessment reports
See below the published reports:
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Türkiye
Social and Employment Impacts of Climate Change and Green Economy Policies in Türkiye
2022
This report sets out to assess Türkiye’s structural challenges in terms of its economic, social and environmental outcomes of a swift and comprehensive implementation of green low-carbon policies. First, a macro-economic structural simulation model, named the Green Jobs Assessment Model, was built for this purpose. And second, a green development scenario was applied and compared to a business-as-usual development scenario.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Brazil
Empregos verdes no Brasil: quantos são, onde estão e como evoluirão nos próximos anos
2009
(In Portuguese)