Jobs in a Changing Climate

https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/climatechange/publication/jobs-in-a-changing-climate Investments in building climate resilience can deliver benefits equivalent to 150 million jobs by 2050, according to the World Bank report, “Jobs in a Changing Climate: Insights from World Bank Group Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) covering 93 economies.” The report, which draws on evidence from CCDRs representing 64 percent of the population and 77 percent of the GDP of low- and middle-income countries, demonstrates ways that countries can integrate their own climate and development goals to drive job creation, economic growth, and resilience. The report finds that the impacts of climate change will negatively affect employment—with the potential for the equivalent of 43 million job losses by 2050 across 49 countries—a figure that rises to 260 million when extrapolated to all low- and middle-income countries.