Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Can Create 4.5 Million Jobs

clipped from www.renewableenergyworld.com According to the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services Inc. (MISI), 4.5 million jobs will be created in the United States by 2030 if the government gets serious about tackling climate change. The agencies released a new report today, entitled Estimating the Jobs Impact of Tackling Climate Change, in which they tally the net jobs that will be created through energy efficiency and renewable energy if the U.S. commits to reducing carbon emissions to levels necessary to ward off the disastrous effects of climate change — displacing approximately 1.2 billion tons of carbon emissions annually by the year 2030. These are net jobs created meaning that the findings take into account the number of jobs that will be lost as well. Tackling Climate Change in the U.S., which found that the country could keep emission levels constant through 2030 with energy efficiency measures and could make deep cuts in emission levels by implementing renewable energy technologies