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New jobs in a clean economy *
Sydney Morning Herald October 22, 2008 Tackling the threat of climate change will destroy some jobs but replace them with others, Kelsey Munro reports. It is shaping up to be the boom sector of the future. So-called green collar careers in renewable energies, recycling industries, green services and any other jobs contributing to better environmental outcomes are expected to grow rapidly over the next few decades.

Many of today’s green jobs hardly existed 10 years ago. In the 1990s, jobs such as those of carbon trader, solar panel installer or green energy auditor sounded to many like science fiction. To really expand the future green-collar economy, skills and training initiatives – up-skilling and re-skilling – will also be necessary.

That is the finding of research commissioned by the Dusseldorp Skills Forum, a not-for-profit body, and carried out by the CSIRO. The report, Growing The Green Collar Economy, says green-collar job growth should offset and possibly exceed job losses caused elsewhere by cuts to carbon pollution.

“The traditional thinking that if you’re more concerned about the environment you will lose jobs is not true,” says Heinz Schandl of the CSIRO, one of the authors of the research.

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October 22, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | ENERGY