You might want to add the subsidiary benefits to real economies, particularly local. The jobs explosion in the US, just at the time it's most needed, from finance and legal to service and construction, with now some 45 manufacturing or assembly plants and their workers, is a key example.
I'd be interested to find out how many people are working Windkraft in Deutschland and Dänemark. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Energy Efficiency, Innovation, and Job Creation in California By David Roland-Holst The report's findings include: Over the past thirty years, forward looking energy efficiency policies created 1.5 million FTE jobs with a total payroll of over $45 billion, and saved California consumers over $56 billion on energy costs. Sectoral examination of these results indicates that job creation is in less energy intensive services and other categories, further compounding California's aggregate efficiency improvements and facilitating the economy's transition to a low carbon future. By taking account of the potential for innovation, the proposed package of policies in the state's Draft Scoping Plan continues California's legacy of efficiency-driven job growth, achieving 100 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets mandated by AB 32 while increasing the Gross State Product (GSP) by about $76 billion, increasing real household incomes by up to $48 billion and creating as many as 403,000 new efficiency and climate action driven jobs. By revenue, energy is the world's largest industry, and energy efficiency can become to this sector what IT was to management, biotech to medicine, a way to revolutionize traditional practices and increase real living standards around the world.
The report's findings include:
Over the past thirty years, forward looking energy efficiency policies created 1.5 million FTE jobs with a total payroll of over $45 billion, and saved California consumers over $56 billion on energy costs. Sectoral examination of these results indicates that job creation is in less energy intensive services and other categories, further compounding California's aggregate efficiency improvements and facilitating the economy's transition to a low carbon future.
By taking account of the potential for innovation, the proposed package of policies in the state's Draft Scoping Plan continues California's legacy of efficiency-driven job growth, achieving 100 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets mandated by AB 32 while increasing the Gross State Product (GSP) by about $76 billion, increasing real household incomes by up to $48 billion and creating as many as 403,000 new efficiency and climate action driven jobs.
By revenue, energy is the world's largest industry, and energy efficiency can become to this sector what IT was to management, biotech to medicine, a way to revolutionize traditional practices and increase real living standards around the world.
The page links to the press release, the executive summary and the full report. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
