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Jobs in a net-zero emissions future in Latin America and the Caribbean
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-Potential to create 15 million net jobs in sectors such as sustainable agriculture, forestry, solar and wind power, manufacturing, and construction during the transition proposed in the Paris Agreement.

-In the transition to a net-zero carbon economy, 7.5 million jobs are destroyed in fossil fuel electricity, fossil fuel extraction, and animal-based food production.

-these lost jobs are more than compensated by new employment opportunities, as 22.5 million jobs are created in agriculture and plant-based food production, renewable electricity, forestry, construction, and manufacturing.

-More than half of the 22.5 million jobs created are in the medium-skill category (13.5 million), one-third in the low- skill category (8 million), and 1 million in the high-skill category. These new low- and medium-skill jobs will benefit part of the 66 million people who are being under-utilised in the labor market, including 9 million unemployed youth (ILO, 2020).

Problem

Report with a thorough explanation of the implications of decabornization for the labour market.

Solution

It presents a chapter with policy options for a Just Transition in which are included:

- skills for a net-zero emissions future,

- jobs for low- and medium-skilled workers,

- reskilling and upskilling for decarbonization, as well as public employment programmes in the time of COVID

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