By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg)
Day two of President Joe Biden’s international climate summit concluded on Friday. Biden pledged during the first day of the virtual event to slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade, part of a plan to bring the U.S. back into the global fight against climate change.
Day two focused on innovation and the economic opportunity in fighting climate change. This is designed to refute skepticism from some blue-collar workers and labor leaders. While renewable energy jobs are growing at a fast clip, labor groups say they pay less than fossil-fuel positions and that companies have opposed unionization.
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COVID Costs 300,000 Clean Energy Jobs; DOE Readies for Rebound
An analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data for 2020 shows the number of workers in clean energy jobs last year fell for the first time since 2015, according to a group of business leaders and investors who study those numbers each year.
The group’s “Clean Jobs America” report, released April 19, said about 3 million U.S. workers were employed in the clean energy sector at year-end 2020, down from 3.36 million in 2019. The group said the COVID-19 pandemic, its related economic contraction, and Trump administration policies “that encouraged fossil fuels over clean energy” contributed to a year-over-year loss of more than 300,000 jobs in energy efficiency, solar, wind, and other clean energy sectors.