Workers will lose jobs in green revolution, admits EU’s energy boss
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By James Crisp | EurActiv.com
Sep 13, 2016 (updated: Sep 13, 2016)
Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič at the T2gE conference, 6 October 2016,
This article is part of a special report series: Transition to green economy
Workers will lose their jobs as Europe shifts to a green economy, European Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič has admitted, amid warnings the world faces political and economic turmoil not witnessed since the 1930s.
Šefčovič made an impassioned plea for national governments to make sure that no one was thrown on the scrapheap of the green revolution. But, he added, “climate change is here and it poses an imminent danger.”
“We should not create obstacles by not taking good care of people who may be intimidated by this transformation,” he said before calling for social programs such as retraining those made redundant as polluting industries were shut down.
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