Via Mint
More than 800 million jobs—about one-quarter of the global workforce—are highly vulnerable to being disrupted by climate change, from weather extremes to the impacts of transitioning to a low-carbon economy, said Deloitte Center for Sustainable Progress report.
“However, policy makers and business leaders can unleash significant economic growth and help create more than 300 million new jobs around the world by 2050 by building a new Green Collar workforce and making decarbonization work,” it said.
The research also finds that India’s workforce and economy are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, which means it has much to gain from an active transition to net zero.
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