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the statistical community to deal with the difficult task of defining and
measuring the concepts of “green jobs” in order to produce internationally
harmonized statistics that would inform the ongoing policy debate on the
economic and employment impact of “greening” the economy.
In order to provide clear statistical definition of the green jobs that would
facilitate production of internationally comparable data, draft guidelines
concerning statistical definition of employment in the environmental sector
and green jobs were discussed and adopted by 19th ICLS, 2013

2. Concepts of employment in the environmental sector and green jobs
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The 19 ICLS guidelines define the environmental sector as comprising all
economic units that carry out environmental activities – those defined in the
Central Framework of the United Nations’ System of Environmental-Economic
Accounting (SEEA) as economic activities whose primary purpose is to reduce
or eliminate pressures on the environment or to make more efficient use of
natural resources. They are grouped into two broad types of environmental
activity:
 Environmental protection activities defined as activities whose primary
purpose is the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution and
other forms of degradation of the environment.
 Resource management activities defines as activities whose primary
purpose is the preservation and maintenance of the stock of natural
resources and hence safeguarding against depletion.
Environmental activities can be carried out by all economic units, as main,
secondary or ancillary activities. A distinction is made between (i) specialist
producers, (ii) non‐specialist producers, and (iii) own‐account producers of
environmental goods and services. These units produce, design and
manufacture at least some goods and services for purposes of environmental
protection and resource management (e.g. environmental specific services,
environmental sole-purpose products, adapted goods, environmental
technologies)

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