“Green jobs” could help tackle global unemployment: U.N.
"Green jobs" could help tackle global unemployment: U.N.
Some ten million jobs could be created by investing in restoring degraded forests, planting new trees, building forest trails and recreation areas, the U.N's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a statement. [Reuters]
"As more jobs are lost due to the current economic downturn, sustainable forest management could become a means of creating millions of green jobs, thus helping to reduce poverty and improve the environment," forestry expert Jan Heino of the Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a statement.
"Since forests and trees are vital storehouses of carbon, such an investment could also make a major contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts," said Heino, the deputy head of FAO's Forestry Department. [Economic Times]
The Rome-based FAO cited an International Labor Organization study that sees global unemployment rising to 198 million people or higher in 2009.
The statement was made ahead of an FAO report on the state of the world's forests, which will be released on March 16 to coincide with World Forest Week in Rome.
Source www.worldbank.org.
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