Publication - 3 July, 2009
Creating jobs while protecting the climateG8 leaders at L’Aquila have the opportunity to stimulate economic recovery while lowering carbon emissions through investing in green jobs. Greenpeace’s newest research shows this shift will create 1 million more jobs in renewable energy by 2020 – 460,000 more than would be created by continuing with conventional power, and will cut power-related CO2 emissions by 50% by 2030.