Centre for Future Work
Summary
Centre for Future Work Director Jim Stanford recently collaborated with the Centre for Civic Governance and the Canadian Building Trades Unions (CBTU) on a new report cataloguing the future job-creation for building trades workers that will result from upcoming investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency measures, in order to meet Canada’s commitment to achieve a net-zero economy by 2050.
The report estimated the construction job-creation spurred by three big categories of investment:
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- Non-emitting energy production and transmission (including hydro, wind, solar, nuclear, and geothermal).
- Energy-efficient industrial and commercial building construction and retrofits, and construction of district energy systems.
- Sustainable transportation infrastructure (including urban transit, inter-urban high=speed rail, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure).
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