{"id":231,"date":"2009-09-23T05:53:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T04:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2009-11-26T09:13:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T09:13:33","slug":"global-climate-change-rules-mean-new-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/global-climate-change-rules-mean-new-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change rules mean new jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global leaders at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/wcm\/content\/site\/climatechange\/gateway\">United Nations Climate Change Summit<\/a> can create millions of jobs if they introduce effective legislation on climate change, a top campaign group has said.<\/p>\n<p>Following\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/Remarks-by-the-President-at-UN-Secretary-General-Ban-Ki-moons-Climate-Change-Summit\/\">US President Barack Obama\u2019s address<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/a>\u00a0at the meeting, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluegreenalliance.org\/press_room\/press_releases?id=0048\">Blue Green Alliance<\/a> executive director David Foster said: \u201cPresident Obama\u2019s speech today to the United Nations Climate Change Summit underscores the importance of addressing our global economic and climate challenges. And with these challenges come great opportunity to reignite the American ingenuity that has served our nation so well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassing comprehensive climate change legislation is the most effective way to rapidly put millions of Americans to work building a clean energy economy, and the best way to revitalize our nation\u2019s economy to compete in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cWe can create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2009\/06\/clean_energy_map.html\">1.7 million jobs<\/a> in the United States by investing in clean energy. The Blue Green Alliance recently found that with a strong Renewable Electricity Standard, we can create more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluegreenalliance.org\/admin\/publications\/files\/0012.4.pdf\">850,000 manufacturing jobs<\/a> in wind, solar, geothermal and biomass power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComprehensive climate change and clean energy legislation will be the spark we need to create good jobs and reduce the carbon pollution that causes global warming. Now, it is time for the Senate to act and get a strong bill to the President for his signature in 2009.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Summit can create millions of jobs if they introduce effective legislation on climate change, a top campaign group has said. Following\u00a0 US President Barack Obama\u2019s address \u00a0at the meeting, the Blue Green Alliance executive director David Foster said: \u201cPresident Obama\u2019s speech today to the United Nations Climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[27,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/greenjobs\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}