Good green job : how climate action is driving employment in cities

This report is part of C40’s ongoing effort to support its members with evidence and data on the potential for climate action to drive employment. It builds on the 2022 pledge by C40 mayors to create 50 million good green jobs in their cities by 2030, and it directly supports C40’s mission to ensure a transition to a clean, green world that is fair, inclusive and addresses the injustices of climate breakdown and delivery against C40’s leadership standards. More in detail, the analysis presents a comprehensive overview of green employment across all sectors of the economy, for 81 global cities across five regions, providing critical evidence that C40 cities are delivering on their commitment to limit global heating while improving the health and economic well-being of their residents.

This data is critical to equip mayors and cities to better understand the sectoral distribution of green employment within their cities, identify sectors with significant growth potential, and establish pathways towards a just transition. A key feature of this C40 study is its consistent methodology applied across most cities, enabling comparable and aggregable results. As data included in this study shows, the last three years have seen unprecedented progress in city-led climate action that both drives jobs creation and invests in the workforce needed to sustain a green and just transition. Hundreds of city-led initiatives are already being implemented across regions, proving that climate action is not only working for the planet, but also for the people and the economy. These include millions of jobs being created in clean energy, clean transportation, clean construction, among others, and critically contributing to both reducing urban emissions and making cities more resilient to worsening climate impacts. At the same time, cities are emerging as just transition implementers, leveraging this huge employment opportunity to also address existing inequalities, ensuring that the process of moving to a greener economy is also just and equitable.

Against this backdrop, the report is structured as follows:
After the methodology, the report presents global and regional findings and sectoral trends, including inspiring and replicable examples of bold city initiatives, and ends with opportunities for further collaboration and ways to move forward.

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