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How many additional jobs could be generated in the energy sector if the measures to comply with the Paris Agreement are implemented? European and Canadian researchers have developed a tool to assess the evolution of the labor market in the energy sector in 50 countries around the world, and whose economy still depends mainly on fossil fuels. These countries include India, China, Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia.

The multiple data used in this study focus on eleven energy technologies and five job categories: construction and installation, operation and maintenance, manufacturing, fuel production and refining.

Changes in the energy sector. According to researchers' estimates published in the journal One Earth, around eight million jobs could be created by 2050, of which 84% in the renewable energy sector (compared to 11% in fossil fuels and 5% in the nuclear).

In this scenario, jobs in fossil fuel extraction
- which constitute 80% of current jobs in the energy sector
- would decrease rapidly. These losses would, however, be offset by gains in jobs in manufacturing solar and wind products, a statement said.

Currently, an estimated 18 million people work in the energy industries
- a number that is expected to increase, not decrease
- to 26 million or more than 50% if we meet our global climate goals ” , explains Johannes Emmerling, environmental economist at the European Institute of Economics and Environment RFF-CMCC (Italy) and co-author of the study. `` As we move to low carbon sources, it is important to have a plan in place for the general acceptability of climate policies, '' adds fellow Sandeep Pai, PhD student in resources, environment and sustainability at the 'University of British Columbia (Canada). Encouraging results which can only be achieved if the countries concerned take steps to apply the measures aimed at complying with the Paris Agreement, which aims to keep global warming at a level well below 2 ° C. , then to continue these efforts to limit it to 1.5 ° C.

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