About one million green jobs will open up in India over next two years

[ChromeFoundry]

16 Aug, 2010, 03.49AM IST,

Mumbai/Kolkata: When he was little, Jai Kumar Gaurav wanted to be a superhero, an imaginary Captain Planet who fights pollution and greens the Earth. Unlike most other little boys, Jai, 24, actually lives his dream. He joined Sindicatum Capital Management as an associate in 2008, and works as a clean development mechanism (CDM) management officer to help firms reduce their Carbon footprint. “I could have chosen to do an MBA, but a clean environment is my priority,” says Jai, about graduating in environmental studies from Delhi University, and later completing his masters in environmental science from the university run by The Energy Resources Institute (TERI).

Like Jai, there are many youngsters today who are drawn to — and engaged in — what are known as ‘green jobs’.

By 2025, a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Report from 2008 estimates that India will see the creation of nine lakh green jobs in the area of biogas alone. (The global market for environmental products and services is projected to go up to $2.74 trillion).

In India alone, headhunters estimate about one million green jobs will open up over the next two years alone. “Earlier, the manufacturing sector used to hire health, safety and environment officers to ensure adequate protection. Now such positions are opening up across sectors, and some companies are even hiring chief sustainability officers,” says E Balaji, director and president, Ma Foi Randstad.

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[guardian]

1. So it was India they refer to when

they talk about "Recovery Summer"? Nobody is hiring around here.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. can we open 1 million green jobs here in the USA?

[eleny]

3. I imagine that the salaries will be pitiful

I only wish I could live long enough to see all those people in China and India get fed up and rise up. Should be quite a flash of fireworks across the skies and a battle for the ages.

[pnwmom]

4. But their cost of living is lower, so engineers there should do fine. n/t

[eleny]

5. I don't think those one million jobs are going to engineers

The lion's share has to be manufacturing positions. Assembly jobs pay crap in India (and China). Or am I mistaken about India's pay scales?

[pnwmom]

6. Again, I think the pay scale only makes sense to evaluate compared to

standard living costs. Those manufacturing jobs might well be considered good jobs in India, just as our manufacturing jobs used to put people solidly in the middle class.

[eleny]

7. Before I finally decide, I want to know the salaries and conditions for all those workers

For instance, will they have safe working conditions?

Remember, the powers that be will want to make more and more profits. That has to come out of the hide of the workers. The formula has to remain the same for them to achieve ever increasing profit margins.

At some point it all has to blow up because they'll run out of countries to exploit. I'd just like to see that day.