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![]() BGA Promotes Green Jobs at UN ConferenceAmid growing global economic, energy and climate crises, the Blue Green Alliance is spotlighting the value of a “green recovery” for the United States at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), December 1–12, in Poznań, Poland. Read the Associated Press article about the partnership between U.S. unions and environmental organizations. Read the release, check out the BGA newsletter on a "Green Recovery," and David Foster's columns on the labor-environmental partnership and the UN Conference on Huffington Post. Watch the web cast of BGA partners discussing green jobs strategies at the Conference. The BGA Action Fund also put out a newsletter on EFCA in Poland. Read it here. |
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Report: Job Opportunities for the Green EconomyJob Opportunities for the Green Economy: A State-by-State Picture of Occupations that Gain from Green Investments, a report released in June from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, examines 12 states and the people employed in occupations affected by six green economic strategies: building retrofitting, mass transit, energy-efficient automobiles, wind power, solar power and cellulosic biofuels. Sponsored by NRDC as part of the Green Jobs for America campaign, the report shows millions of U.S. workers will benefit from a movement to defeat global warming and transform the United States into a green economy. Download the report, read the press release and state fact sheets. |




