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Climate Jobs Fact Sheet

Climate Jobs Fact Sheet

Full Title: Climate Jobs Fact Sheet
Author(s): Savannah Bertrand
Publisher(s): Environmental and Energy Study Institute
Publication Date: September 24, 2021
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Description (excerpt):

Responding to the climate crisis provides an immense opportunity for job creation. Those jobs—jobs that help mitigate and adapt to climate change—are climate jobs. In recent years, climate jobs have been on the rise in the United States. However, the economy-wide impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic affected climate employment: eight percent of climate jobs were shed in 2020. Despite this, employment in some climate industries increased in 2020, and many climate jobs are expected to recover in 2021. In total, there were well over 4.1 million climate jobs in 2020.

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