{"id":428199,"date":"2021-07-30T11:26:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T05:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428199"},"modified":"2021-07-30T13:33:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T08:03:41","slug":"switching-to-renewable-energy-will-add-5-lakh-jobs-in-india-by-2050-finds-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/switching-to-renewable-energy-will-add-5-lakh-jobs-in-india-by-2050-finds-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching to renewable energy will add 5 lakh jobs in India by 2050, finds study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The refrain to justify not moving away from fossil fuels has been that it would put people out of work. Coal and petroleum are big employers. India alone has about 8.6 lakh energy jobs now. But a new study has found that phasing out fossil fuels would actually add 80 lakh energy sector jobs across the world by 2050, of which over 5.4 lakh would be in India. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimate action results in more jobs,\u201d Dr Sandeep Pai, co-author of the paper published in \u2018One Earth\u2019 journal on Friday, told TOI. Data he shared show that if the Paris Agreement target of temperature rise staying well below 2\u00b0C werema met, the number of jobs in India\u2019s energy sector would go up from 8.6 lakh to 14 lakh by 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The refrain to justify not moving away from fossil fuels has been that it would put people out of work. Coal and petroleum are big employers. India alone has about 8.6 lakh energy jobs now. But a new study has found that phasing out fossil fuels would actually add 80 lakh energy sector jobs across the world by 2050, of which over 5.4 lakh would be in India. \u201cClimate action results in more jobs,\u201d Dr Sandeep Pai, co-author of the paper published in \u2018One Earth\u2019 journal on Friday, told TOI. Data he shared show that if the Paris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}