Jobs for a Livable Planet
The global transition to clean energy must accelerate if global warming is to be limited to 1.5°C and the effects of climate change mitigated. For the energy sector, the transition involves replacing fossil fuels with clean sources of energy and electrifying traditionally unelectrified areas (such as transport, heating, and industrial processes) while working toward universal access to clean energy services. Disruptive changes in production and consumption in the economy will result from phasing out traditional fossil-fuel industries and promoting sustainable energy technologies. To bring evidence to bear on this issue, the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) implemented a program of analytical work from 2020 to 2023. Entitled “Estimating the Job Creation Potential of the Clean Energy Transition,” it assessed the job creation potential of the clean energy transition in low- and middle-income countries. In view of the limited applicability of the literature to the energy transition for developing economies and data constraints that preclude an ex post analysis, a computable general equilibrium model was developed to simulate, ex ante, the economywide employment impacts of clean energy interventions characterizing the energy transition in a sample of strategically important Sub-Saharan African countries. While modeling can indicate likely high-level outcomes, it sheds little light on the mechanisms by which clean energy projects create jobs, which is important for policy design. Modeling also abstracts from spatial, temporal, and skills frictions that arise in real labor markets. Therefore, to complement the modeling and understand how clean energy interventions create jobs in developing countries and also characterize the jobs created, detailed case studies of selected World Bank–supported clean energy projects were carried out, supplemented by deep dives into jobs created by productive use of electricity in mini grids and insights on the labor transition options for workers of coal-fired power plants. The findings, conclusions, and recommendations of this program of analytical work are presented in this report.
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Format: | Report biblioteca |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2024-01-24
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Subjects: | CLEAN ENERGY, TRANSITION, EMPLOYMENT IMPACTS, CLEAN ENERGY INVESTMENTS, |
Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099012324075618467/P17643810e6ae80901a66b1c56cb14b2a36 https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40962 |
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Summary: | The global transition to clean energy
must accelerate if global warming is to be limited to 1.5°C
and the effects of climate change mitigated. For the energy
sector, the transition involves replacing fossil fuels with
clean sources of energy and electrifying traditionally
unelectrified areas (such as transport, heating, and
industrial processes) while working toward universal access
to clean energy services. Disruptive changes in production
and consumption in the economy will result from phasing out
traditional fossil-fuel industries and promoting sustainable
energy technologies. To bring evidence to bear on this
issue, the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance
Program (ESMAP) implemented a program of analytical work
from 2020 to 2023. Entitled “Estimating the Job Creation
Potential of the Clean Energy Transition,” it assessed the
job creation potential of the clean energy transition in
low- and middle-income countries. In view of the limited
applicability of the literature to the energy transition for
developing economies and data constraints that preclude an
ex post analysis, a computable general equilibrium model was
developed to simulate, ex ante, the economywide employment
impacts of clean energy interventions characterizing the
energy transition in a sample of strategically important
Sub-Saharan African countries. While modeling can indicate
likely high-level outcomes, it sheds little light on the
mechanisms by which clean energy projects create jobs, which
is important for policy design. Modeling also abstracts from
spatial, temporal, and skills frictions that arise in real
labor markets. Therefore, to complement the modeling and
understand how clean energy interventions create jobs in
developing countries and also characterize the jobs created,
detailed case studies of selected World Bank–supported clean
energy projects were carried out, supplemented by deep dives
into jobs created by productive use of electricity in mini
grids and insights on the labor transition options for
workers of coal-fired power plants. The findings,
conclusions, and recommendations of this program of
analytical work are presented in this report. |
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