Part of a National Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy

September 2008
Prepared for The Center for American Progress

This fact sheet details the impact on North Carolina based on the Center for American Progress’ national report, which outlines a green economic recovery program to strengthen the U.S. economy over the next two years and leave it in a better position for sustainable prosperity. In the national report, The Center proposes policies to expand job opportunities by stimulating economic growth, stabilizing the price of oil, and making significant strides toward fighting global warming and building a green, low-carbon economy.

This green economic recovery program—including invest­ments in retrofitting buildings, expanding mass transit and freight rail, constructing smart energy grids, and expanding production of wind power, solar power, and advanced biofu­els—would be a down payment on a 10-year policy program recommended by the Center for American Progress in its 2007 report “Capturing the Energy Opportunity: Creating a Low-Carbon Economy,” by John D. Podesta, Todd Stern, and Kit Batten.

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September 2008
Prepared for the United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Environment Programme assembled evidence – quantitative, anecdotal, and conceptual – for currently existing green jobs in key economic sectors (renewable energy, buildings and construction, transportation, basic industry, agriculture, and forestry) and presents estimates and predictions for future green employment around the world. The pace of green job creation is likely to accelerate in the years ahead. A global transition to a low-carbon and sustainable economy can create large numbers of green jobs across many sectors of the economy, and indeed can become an engine of development. Current green job creation is taking place in both the rich countries and in some of the major developing economies.

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