Work West and Prosper: BC’s green economy.
The attached report, “British Columbia’s Green Economy: Securing the Workforce of Tomorrow”, published recently by the Globe Foundation, lays out how its rapidly growing green job market could very well be BC’s comparative advantage. The report outlines six key sectors which generated 166,000 full time-equivalent jobs in BC in 2008, and that number is expected to increase to a possible 202,000 by 2020. So, for anyone looking for sustainability-related careers or not, the reality is that BC’s economy is going to be increasingly affected by the green economy. Over 10% of BC’s GDP in 2008 (that’s $15.3 billion) was created through our six key green sectors, and is projected to grow to over 14% ($27 billion) by 2020.
These six sectors include:
- Clean and Alternative Energy (44%)
- Energy Management and Efficiency (11%)
- Green Building (14%)
- Environmental Protection (21%)
- Carbon Finance and Investment (1%)
- Green Knowledge, Research, and Support (9%)
All of these sectors combined are growing faster than BC’s economy on the whole.
REPORT: globe_green_economy_report_ii_final
For reference, the Globe Foundation is:
