Jobs at Risk from Climate Change: UN
2007-11-12
Millions of jobs worldwide could be casualties of climate change, but responding to climate change will create new jobs, UN officials say.
According to the heads of the United National climate and weather agencies:
Global warming could decimate the world fisheries sector, threaten the tourism industry and cause widespread job losses among those displaced by its impacts.
But, says Achim Steiner of the UN Environment Program:
Scores of new jobs would be created in the environment technology sector as countries work to avoid and lessen the effects of climate change.
Global warming and the need to respond to climate change is becoming a major impulse for innovation and efficiency gains.
Labour union leaders have called for clear long-term strategies to help uprooted workers.
As Joaquin Nieto of Sustainlabour points out:
We are talking about a major change, as substantial as the industrial revolution. The problem is the jobs that will be created will not be created at the same time, or in the same place, as the ones that are lost.
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Source: Millions of Jobs at Risk from Climate Change: UN. Laura MacInnis. Reuters. 2007.11.12
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