U.N. Report: Forestry Can Create 10 Million Jobs
The United Nations is urging countries to invest in green jobs working with “sustainable forest management” to address the growing problem of unemployment worldwide.
At least 10 million such jobs could be created, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization will say in a report to be released this week.
The report does not mention any countries but is aimed at “mainly regions with substantial rural unemployment and degraded land areas,” said C.T.S. Nair, chief economist in the U.N. Forestry Department and one of the authors of the report.
While all countries could benefit from investing in these green jobs, Nair said, Asia and Africa — and to some extent Latin America — could benefit the most. India, China and almost all countries in Africa stand to benefit, he added.
The United Nations said it already is seeing indications that some countries — such as the United States, India and South Korea — are interested and taking action to invest in sustainable forest management by making it part of their economic stimulus plans.
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