Research paper · Prof. Dr Aneta Vasiljevikj-Shikaleska, Prof. Dr Biljana Gjozinska, Prof. Dr Adrijana Bulevska Zarikj · pp. 97–110
The paper "Green Jobs and Skills in the Context of Sustainable Development" (original in Serbian: "Zeleni poslovi i veštine u kontekstu održivog razvoja", with an English abstract) gives an overview of how green jobs and green skills are defined and identified, and follows the development of the key indicators of the environmental economy in European Union countries. It is written by Prof. Dr Aneta Vasiljevikj-Shikaleska, Prof. Dr Biljana Gjozinska and Prof. Dr Adrijana Bulevska Zarikj of the Institute for Applied Research for Business.
Green jobs are found in many sectors: sustainable agriculture and forestry, renewable energy, waste management and recycling, climate adaptation, energy efficiency, sustainable transport and construction. In the International Labour Organization's words, they are jobs that "help preserve or restore the environment". The paper analyses the production and export of environmental goods and services, related employment and gross value added, using Eurostat data for 2000–2020.
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Green Jobs and Skills in the Context of Sustainable Development (PDF, in Serbian with an English abstract)Authors: researchers of the Institute for Applied Research for Business, Skopje. The paper is available in the Institute's Repositarium.
Key findings
- Slovakia has the largest growth in employment and in gross value added of the environmental economy in the EU.
- Romania shows the largest fall in employment, and Hungary the largest fall in gross value added, in the environmental economy.
- Spain, France, Czechia, the Netherlands and Slovakia contribute most, with around 87,000 new green jobs in 2020.
- Twelve EU member states show a decrease in jobs in the environmental goods and services economy.
Keywords: green jobs, environmental economy, employment, gross domestic product.
Related
The Institute's research on green jobs and the circular economy, including "Reskill the future by greening jobs", is listed on the Projects page. On the circular economy, see also the monograph "Circular Economy: Current State and Challenges for Macedonian Companies".