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STS429 Valentina Stoevska
Figure 1: Employment in the environmental sector

Employment in the environmental sectors is defined comprising all
persons who, during a set reference period,
- were involved in the production of environmentally desirable output
(employment in environmental output).
- whose duties involve making their economic unit’s production
processes more environmentally friendly or make more efficient use of
natural resources. This includes using methods, procedures, practices,
or technologies that, for example reduce or eliminate pollution, reduce
consumption of water and energy, minimize waste, or protect and
restore ecosystems (employment in environmental processes).
This distinction takes into account the fact that environmental output not
always produced by using environmental processes and technologies. These
two components of employment in the environmental sector shed light on
different ways of greening enterprises and economies and offer different entry
points for policies.
Green jobs are defined as a subset of employment in the environmental
sector that meets the requirements of decent work (e.g. offer adequate wages,
safe conditions, workers’ rights, social dialogue and social protection).
1

1 The decent work dimension of jobs may be measured according to relevant indicators
selected from Guidelines for Producers and Users of Statistical and Legal Framework
Indicators ILO Manual, second
version. http://www.ilo.org/stat/Publications/WCMS_223121/lang‐‐en/index.htm
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