Clean Trumps Coal for Jobs, Advocates Say

Campaign groups said Monday that global leaders could raise the total number of jobs in the power sector by 2.7 million over the next 20 years if their nations switched to renewable forms of electricity generation and phased out coal. The groups, Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council, released the report, “Working for the Climate,” ahead of the coming Group of 20 meeting of major industrialized and developing economies in Pittsburgh next week. The aim, the groups said, was to show that stimulating the growth of green power industries is an effective way of raising employment. The report is likely to add to debate about whether the transition to a low-carbon economy will create more jobs than it would destroy at a time when countries are slowly showing signs of recovery from the worst economic slowdown in decades...NYTimes