From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

According to the ONS, the number of green jobs in the UK rose from 507,000 in 2015 to 526,000 in 2020.

Most of these are jobs that have traditionally existed, such as waste collection, forestry management, water and wider environmental activities. There are also 53500 non-jobs such as consultancy, charities and management.

When we strip these out, the jobs total rises from 168,000 to 179,000. Hardly earth shattering!

Low Carbon Transport is a bit of a cheat anyway, as jobs created in building EVs, for instance, have merely switched from building ICEs.

Two thirds of the jobs are involved in “Energy Efficient Products”, whatever that may mean. I suspect that these are just normal manufacturing jobs which have been relabelled as green.

Either way the number of manufacturing jobs already lost added to the ones which will be in future thanks to Net Zero will dwarf this handful of new green jobs.