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Green Expectations: London jobless set to benefit from environmental initiatives

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Admin

13 September 2010: Green Expectations sets out London’s low carbon job prospects from 2008/09 to 2012/13. The report’s key findings include:

  • Job Growth in London’s low carbon sector, particularly in renewable energy, is forecast to exceed all other sectors in the next two years.
  • In 2008/09 approximately 100,000 people were employed in the low carbon sector in London, and by 2013 18,000 new jobs will be created.
  • An estimated 2,200 of these net new jobs in the low carbon sector will be accessible to workless or low-skilled Londoners.
  • The current skills profile of the sector is characterised by high skills with more than one in two employees having a degree. However, a quarter of all jobs in the sector currently require skills at Level 2 and below.
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HEEP – 10 easy measures technical trial

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Admin

October 2009:  Report on the technical trial of the ’10 easy efficiency measures’ project, which forms part of the Mayor’s Home Energy Efficiency Programme (HEEP), delivered by West London Housing Partnership and Hillingdon Council.

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The role of financial services sector in mitigating and adapting to climate change

Posted on September 13, 2007 by Admin

September 2007: GLA Economics Current Issues Note 19 – this paper examines how London’s financial services sector is helping society mitigate and adapt to climate change. Amongst other things this involves the financing of new environmental technologies; carbon trading; and creating markets, insurance products and other innovative services.

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