Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Drive to Cut Emissions Creates Jobs Engine


The challenge of global warming is moving from rhetoric to the workplace, creating jobs as governments, businesses and environmental groups create markets aimed at reducing greenhouse gases.

Nowhere is that more obvious than in the trading of credits tied to emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases related to global warming.

“This is a very dynamic and fast-growing market,” said Wiley Barbour, executive director of Environmental Resources Trust, a Washington nonprofit group that is working to foster emission markets. “I can’t even hire all the people I need. It’s really hard right now to find climate change experts.”

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