Victoria - The Green Jobs State: Seizing the Opportunities
Source: Victoria. Environment Victoria. Report
"The potential to generate 25,000 new jobs across five Victorian industries, and deliver substantial greenhouse gas emission cuts, has been outlined in a new report by a peak environmental lobby group. Environment Victoria’s report identifies through a series of case studies the potential to create the new jobs in the industries of: solar water heating; rail; energy and water efficiency in residential buildings; recycling and wind.
According to the report, increasing the percentage of the state’s households that use solar hot water heating from the present level of 3% to 30% by 2020 would treble the size of the current industry and create about 1500 new jobs in the industry. This would also result in savings of 1.8 million tonnes of emissions annually, the report says."