How would a transition to a zero-carbon economy affect employment? Would jobs be lost or gained? What would those jobs be, and where would they be? This report from Green House tries to answer these questions for the Sheffield City Region by bringing together data on the number of jobs associated with activities such as insulating homes or recycling waste with information about the region, to produce an estimate of the number of jobs that would be created in key sectors of the economy. The sectors considered are: energy, transport, buildings, farming, forestry and food, and reuse, repair and recycling. Where they can be quantified the numbers of jobs that would be lost, for example in coal-fired power stations or repair of internal-combustion-engine vehicles, have been subtracted from the number of jobs created. The report estimates that, after subtracting the jobs lost, around 22,000 full time equivalent jobs would be created in a transition phase, with around 18,000 in the longer term (post 2030). These estimates are conservative as data was not available on the numbers of jobs associated with all the things that we need to do, such as better managing electricity demand, and they do not include `multiplier effects', whereby the spending of those in the created employment provides jobs in the wider economy.
- ISBN13 9780993353178
- Publish Date 28 May 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Green House
- Format Paperback
- Pages 63
- Language English