The Green Energy Act (GEA) could employ over 90,000 Ontarians in green jobs. Government of Ontario is prepared to initiate the GEA, which focuses on the possibilities for employment if a large investment is made in green practices. Along with increasing employment opportunities, the program could have a huge positive impact on the environment.[...]

Energy efficiency, renewable energy and co-generation alternatives provide cheaper, more secure, and less wasteful forms of electricity generation than nuclear, concludes a new report, Powerful Options: A review of Ontario’s options for replacing aging nuclear plants.[...]

If renewable energy production in the US was increased 20% by 2020, 185,000 new jobs would be created in renewable energy development. Consumers would also save $10.5 billion on electricity and gas bills and farmers, ranchers, and rural landowners would have $25.6 billion added to their total income[...]

If the issues of climate change are not addressed, it could cost every person on earth $1000 a year, or $7 trillion worldwide, says Nicholas Stern, former World Bank chief economist. In the report, Climate Change and Green Jobs: Labour’s Challenges and Opportunities, the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) stresses that taking action will cost a lot less than doing nothing.[...]

To prevent global warming, Canadian experts call for a 25% reduction below 1990 levels of CO2 emissions by 2020 and 80% below by 2050. The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) supports the creation of new and effective climate change policies to keep emissions down and provide new jobs centred around environmentally sustainable practices in the workplace.[...]

We are on the verge of a transformation into the greener economy, says the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The UNEP Background Paper on Green Jobs discusses the Green Jobs Initiative, which is a collaborative project that the UNEP, International Labour Organization (ILO) and International Trade Union Confederation (ATUC) are all a part of.

Listen to Jim Harris on the CBC’s Sunday Edition talking about the carbon tax in Canada.

It’s SUV’s that are the problem with global warming — right? Well in fact SUVs only account for 3% of CO2 emissions in North America. Buildings are responsible for 50%. Read how buildings can become net generators of energy.

The Apollo Alliance calls for investing $500 billion by 2018, which will create five million high quality green-collar jobs. The Alliance’s first report, New Energy for America (Jan ’04) called for $300 billion of public expenditure to create three million jobs, stimulate $1.4 trillion in new GDP, add billions in personal income and retail sales, and produce $284 billion in net energy savings – all while generating sufficient returns to the U.S. treasury to pay for itself over 10 years.

In 2006, there were 8.5 million Americans working in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RE&EE) industries. By 2030, the country could potentially have up to 40 million green collar jobs. That’s one in four Americans bringing in a total of $4.5 trillion in revenue for the US instead of the $970 billion in 2006.[...]