Critical investment in low-carbon industries can create millions of American jobs in the upcoming years. As part of Barak Obama’s stimulus package, $70 billion is targeting renewable energy and conservation schemes which is producing results.
Furthermore Obama plans to invest $150 billion over the next decade to create 5 million ‘green jobs’.
According to the Centre for American Progress…
Investments in a clean-energy economy will generate major employment benefits for the entire U.S. economy. Our research finds that spending $150 billion on clean-energy investments would create roughly 1.7 million jobs. This is even after assuming a reduction in fossil fuel spending equivalent to the increase in clean-energy investments. ~Source
…these are jobs for the future where oil & gas as a resource is in decline, renewable energy is on the up. The Centre for American Progress goes on to say…
Clean-energy investments create 16.7 jobs for every $1 million in spending. Spending on fossil fuels, by contrast, generates 5.3 jobs per $1 million in spending.
Most of the jobs created through clean-energy investments will be in the same areas that people work in today. Constructing wind farms creates jobs for sheet metal workers, machinists, and truck drivers. Increasing buildings’ energy efficiency through retrofitting requires roofers, insulators, and building inspectors. Expanding mass transit systems employs civil engineers, electricians, and dispatchers.
Relative to spending on fossil fuels, clean-energy investments create 2.6 times more jobs for people with college degrees or above, 3 times more jobs for people with some college, and 3.6 times more jobs for people with high school degrees or less. ~Source
…a not insignificant return on investment for Obama.
Wind Turbine
An example of renewable energy jobs creation can be found in Pennsylvania where the Spanish company Gamesa Corp. Tecnologica SA, has converted a disused steel mill into a manufacturing facility for wind turbines creating 300 jobs.
This is exactly the investment in low-carbon technology being called for by the Climate Solutions 2 report presented to the WWF ahead of the Copenhagen summit.
If this is an indication of the green jobs we can create by transforming the world into a low-carbon economy, then rock-on I say! 
Sincerely,
P.S. Please follow the link to the Centre for American Progress to read more on this issue.
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