CONTENT: Press Release
Recognizes the clean energy transition as an opportunity to create a more equitable, just and sustainable economy
Recommends five best practices to bring local communities and workforces into planning with clean energy project developers, purchasers, investors and regulators
December 13, 2020 /3BL Media/ - As clean energy deployment accelerates across the U.S. with solar and wind power now supplying more electricity than coal and $1.7 trillion in new renewable projects expected this decade, Ceres issues today a set of recommendations to help ensure local communities and workers are not left behind in the clean energy transition.
Recognizing in the transition a huge opportunity to create a more equitable, just and sustainable economy, the report—Practices for Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development of Clean Energy Resources—details how the rapid clean energy deployment underway can and must embrace local stakeholders’ needs for local jobs, economic benefits and protection of environmental habitats.