COURTESY OF THE RESEARCHERS
“The impact on jobs of the energy transition is not just going to be where oil and natural gas are drilled,” says Christopher Knittel, an economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of the paper. “It’s going to be all the way up and down the value chain of things we make in the US. That’s a more extensive, but still focused, problem.”
Using several data sources measuring energy consumption by businesses, as well as detailed employment data from the US Census Bureau, Knittel and Kailin Graham, a master’s student in the Technology and Policy Program, calculated the “employment carbon footprint” of every county in the US.
“Our results are unique in that we cover close to the entire US economy and consider the impacts on places that produce fossil fuels but also on places that consume a lot of coal, oil, or natural gas for energy,” says Graham. “This approach gives us a much more complete picture of where communities might be affected and how support should be targeted.”
He adds, “It’s important that policymakers understand these economy-wide employment impacts. Our aim in providing these data is to help policymakers incorporate these considerations into future policies.”
24World Media does not take any responsibility of the information you see on this page. The content this page contains is from independent third-party content provider. If you have any concerns regarding the content, please free to write us here: contact@24worldmedia.com
Do you believe the Covid vaccine had negative side effects? VOTE HERE
Latest Google layoffs hit the Flutter and Python groups
‘Women’s rights have been attacked constantly!’
Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer
AWS S3 storage bucket with unlucky name nearly cost developer $1,300
FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks
Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms from sounding
Roundtables: Inside the Next Era of AI and Hardware
Supplements: Ginkgo biloba boosts memory
