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Jobs in green and healthy transport: Making the green shift

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Land transport is an important sector in terms of job creation and economic development. It employs
over 60 million workers around the world, representing more than 2 per cent of global employment.
Total employment is even higher if one counts the indirect jobs that depend on value chains associated
with the transport sector.

At the same time, because of the resources it consumes and the pollution it causes, transport
also contributes to environmental degradation and to health problems. If global and local
environmental objectives are to be achieved while promoting the transport sector as a source of
decent work, it is essential that the pursuit of environmental sustainability should be at the heart
of policy development.

A macroeconomic multiregional input–output model has been used in this study to analyse the
employment implications of four “green transport” scenarios in the ECE region. Projections up
to 2030 obtained using a business-as-usual scenario were compared with projections from the
modelling of each of those four scenarios, which envisage an accelerated expansion of public
transport and the electrification of private passenger and freight transport. The specific scenarios
modelled were:

 

The Economic Case for Greening the Global Recovery through Cities: Seven priorities for national governments

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As the year 2020 has unfolded, COVID-19 has rapidly shifted from primarily being a public health emergency
to becoming a full-blown economic crisis. Economies around the world have ground to a halt, with billions
of people home-confined, often at the cost of their jobs, education and economic security. Although the full
economic consequences remain to be seen, the crisis is projected to cause a cumulative loss of over US$12
trillion to the global economy over two years (2020–21).

Current estimates for job losses by the end of June 2020 are the equivalent of 400 million full-time jobs (14% of
working hours), based on pre-crisis employment levels², while 28% of the global workforce – 1.25 billion people –
work in sectors at risk.³ It is not just formal employment that has been hard hit. In the global south, up to 80% of
urban employment is in the informal sector.

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