The green transition is changing jobs, skills, and local economies. It poses new challenges but also opportunities, both of which will differ across places within countries. This report, Job Creation and Local Economic Development 2023: Bridging the Great Green Divide, provides novel evidence on those risks and opportunities across regions in 30 OECD countries. It examines the geography of green-task and polluting jobs and examines the impact of the green transition on gender and socioeconomic inequality by identifying the characteristics of workers in those jobs. Furthermore, the report tracks the progress regions have made in greening their labour market over the past decade. The report provides actionable policy recommendations that can help deliver a green and just transition. It looks at past and other ongoing labour market transitions and identifies local success drivers that can help communities prepare for and manage the impact of the green transition. Finally, it points out actions for ramping up and adapting local skills development systems to meet the demands of the green transition and equip their workforce with the right skills for the future.
1. OECD Launch of
Job Creation and Local Economic Development 2023:
Bridging the Great Green Divide
14 March 2023 14:00 CET
LEED
GOOD JOBS, GREAT PLACES
2. Opening remarks
Yoshiki Takeuchi, OECD Deputy
Secretary-General
Bridging the Great
Presentation of the report
Karen Maguire, Head of Division,
Local Employment and Economic
Development (LEED) Programme,
OECD
Moderator
Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp,
Coordinator, Local Labour Markets,
LEED Programme, OECD
Speakers
Barbara Kauffmann, Director, Employment and Social
Governance, DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion,
European Commission
Noelia Cantero, Director, European Association of Regional and
Local Authorities for Lifelong Learning
James Gomme, Director, Equity Action of the World Business
Council for Sustainable Development
Debora Revoltella, Director of the Economics Department of
the European Investment Bank, acting as Chief Economist
Yonnec Polet, Rapporteur, Committee of the Regions and 1st
Deputy Mayor of Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Belgium
Moustapha Kamal Gueye, Director, ILO Priority Action
Programme, Just transitions towards environmentally
sustainable economies and societies
Green Divide
15. If you would like a country-
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tijs.creijghton@oecd.org
16. Barbara Kauffmann, Director,
Employment and Social
Governance, DG Employment,
Social Affairs & Inclusion,
European Commission
Bridging the Great Green Divide
PANEL DISCUSSION
Yonnec Polet, Rapporteur,
Committee of the Regions and
1st Deputy Mayor of Berchem-
Sainte-Agathe, Belgium
Noelia Cantero, Director, European
Association of Regional and Local
Authorities for Lifelong Learning
James Gomme, Director,
Equity Action of the World
Business Council for
Sustainable Development
Debora Revoltella, Director of the
Economics Department of the European
Investment Bank, acting as Chief Economist
Moustapha Kamal Gueye, Director,
Priority Action Programme, Just
transitions towards environmentally
sustainable economies and societies
Notas del editor
Biennial publication of the LEED programme--across the OECD, green policies abound (European Green Deal, the US Inflation Reduction Act etc.)
Clear ramifications for jobs and economic development with a strong place-based lens—
What places and people have opportunities/risks?
If we don’t get this right, it undermines the overall net-zero goals.
No one universal definition of what is a green job—merits to different approaches depending on the goals
Take 2 broad ways of doing so…
Why we made this choice for this report
Did some tests and found this made sense.
Slow pace of progress to net zero in terms of jobs.
30 percentage points more than non-green jobs in job posting analysis
Many of the regulatory matters that will trigger the demand for different skills are just hitting or haven’t hit yet
Most jobs are neither green or polluting in terms of tasks
Urban bias in these figures—capital regions come out on top in almost all cases….
Lot of
Industrial composition
Educational attainment of the workforce
Innovation activity
R&D investments
Mainly male workers, very concentrated
Women are underrepresented
in green-task jobs (28%).
In all regions in Europe and Australia women constitute less than 50% of the ‘green workforce’.
Men make up the majority of workers
in polluting jobs (>80%).
Governance, collaboration, labour market (retraining, reskilling), in conjucntion with local dev efforts