It aims to better equip the actors of the world of work to understand the challenges and opportunities of the transition and to take up the active role that they must play in managing this change. [...] The net increase of approximately 18 million jobs across the world will be the result of the adoption of sustainable practices, including changes in the energy mix, the projected growth in the use of electric vehicles, and increases in energy efficiency in existing and future buildings. [...] The transition is urgent, given the unsustainable pressure of current economic activity on the environment Substantial progress was achieved during the period between 2000 and 2015 in the global economy and in the promotion of decent work, especially in the form of a reduction in working poverty and child labour. [...] In contrast, the footprint includes all the emissions and The situation is similar for the material, resources embodied in consumption, in- water and land resources embodied in con- cluding those associated with imported sumption, compared with those used for goods and services, as well as the goods the production of goods and services: de- and services produced and consumed in veloping and emergi. [...] In the Americas, jobs are more dependent on GHG emissions and resource use than in Asia and the Pacific and Africa, to a large extent mirroring the higher labour productivity in the Americas and the size of the subsistence sector in Asia and the Pacific and Africa.
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