Local Government: Green recovery could create over one million jobs

(Business Green, 11 Jun 2020) Major new report from the Local Government Association argues devolving skills development and investment could help put UK on track for net zero emissions and create a post-coronavirus jobs boom.

The Local Government Association (LGA) has become the latest influential body to call on the government to prioritise climate action in its imminent recovery plan, setting out plans for a jobs guarantee programme that could help create over one million green jobs in the coming decades.

The group today published a new report, entitled Local green jobs - accelerating a sustainable economic recovery, which predicts the green jobs market is expected to grow rapidly as the UK works to meet its target of net zero emissions by 2050. But it argues that concerted action to introduce a national skills programme and devolve funding to councils and combined authorities so they can work with businesses and education providers to train and retrain young people and older workers to address skills gaps could help fast-track the green jobs boom at a time when a major unemployment crisis looms.

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Business Green, 11 Jun 2020: Local Government: Green recovery could create over one million jobs