Global climate change is a potentially catastrophic problem. Unchecked climate change will disrupt people’s access to the basic elements of life – food, water, shelter, and health. Because greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are nearly always the result of economic activities, economic policy will play a key role in any effort to mitigate climate change. The size and imminence of the danger from climate change calls for using all potential levers of economic policy—at all levels of government—to reorient economic activity away from GHG emissions. This transition must be guided by principles of racial equity and economic justice that protect, support, and empower working people and highly impacted communities.
Greener Pathways: Jobs and Workforce Development in the Clean Energy Economy
- March 12, 2008
- High Road Strategy Center (formerly COWS)
- Sarah White and Jason Walsh
Greener Pathways provides information to help states craft clean energy agendas that simultaneously meet emerging industry demand; train and support workers; and create good, family-supporting jobs. A series of key principles helps focus and animate green jobs policy…