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IRENA: Renewable energy generates half a million new jobs worldwide in 2019

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Wind energy, meanwhile, accounted for 1.17 and hydropower employed around 1.95 In Europe, which had 1.3 Global Wind Energy Council chief executive Ben Backwell, meanwhile, urged policymakers to reconsider their support to the fossil fuel sector. million jobs last year. million workers. Brazil also employed 1.16

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Janet Yellen on financing a sustainable future

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In particular, the plan adopts a technology-neutral Clean Electricity Standard, which puts us on the path to achieving 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. An important feature of this approach is that it is technology-neutral. It also includes retrofitting U.S. The transition will create many new job opportunities.

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Global Briefing: UN shines spotlight on e-waste opportunity

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They also promised to confirm the country's net zero emissions by 2050 goal in law through a new Climate Action bill that will set economy-wide five-year carbon budgets and establish a cap on how much each sector can emit. By 2040, we will be carbon neutral. Poland hails 'birth of offshore wind' industry.

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