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  • Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises play an important role in economic and social development by fostering value-adding activities, taking part in global supply chains, driving innovation, and promoting inclusive growth through the creation of job opportunities. UNDP
  • Over the next five years, nearly a quarter of all jobs will change as a result of AI, digitization and other economic developments like the green energy transition and supply chain re-shoring. Fortune
  • The American-Made Upskill Prize for the Solar Manufacturing Workforce is designed to realize the full potential of the Inflation Reduction Act, bolster U.S. competitiveness in the solar supply chain, and create high-quality jobs for U.S. workers. Energy.gov
  • Companies in India can now create millions of jobs and value through innovations that capture the full potential of digital transformation, energy transition, modern infrastructure development, and realignment of global supply chains. Mint
  • Joint financing offered by UKEF and Korea Trade Insurance Corporation of £367 million has secured SeAH Wind's investment in the world's largest wind monopile factory in Redcar creating 750 jobs in Teesside and new opportunities for local supply chains. GOV.UK
  • Increased safe use of timber in construction in England will create an opportunity to increase demand for domestic timber, creating new green jobs, as well as stimulating further investment into domestic timber and wood processing supply chains. GOV.UK
  • GIGA will enable the UK to seize growth opportunities through the transition to net zero, unlocking private investment, protecting jobs and creating new ones, and leveraging impact across the wider supply chain. GOV.UK
  • In the shorter term there is likely to be a blow to the UK's green economy by upending the offshore wind supply chain, which was expected to create more than 100,000 new jobs by the end of the decade. Inkl
  • Partnering with Deutsche Bank will allow companies, particularly SMEs, to access the global supply chain which can spur economic growth and contribute to job creation. Asian Development Bank
  • A prominent developer has earmarked a site in Nottinghamshire for almost 130,000 sq ft of logistics space in a scheme forecast to create jobs in both the construction and operational phases. Insider Media Ltd
  • New manufacturing facilities, processing plants and raw material production will further catalyse economic growth and job creation, with the intention of insulating the US from geopolitical supply chain risks. Global Wind Energy Council
  • A TEPA between EFTA and India could bring significant economic benefits, such as integrated and resilient supply chains and new opportunities for businesses and individuals on both sides leading to increased trade and investment flows, job creation, and economic growth. The Indian Express
  • Opportunities for job creation will likely come from investments that facilitate the green transition of businesses, the broader application of ESG standards and a broad reorientation of global supply chains, it said. Fortune
  • Taking advantage of tax-credit incentives contained in the Inflation Reduction Act, Qcells has pledged to build an entire solar supply chain in the U.S. and to create twenty-five hundred jobs in Georgia. The New Yorker
  • ECA believes in the great potential for nuclear energy to deliver dependable baseload power alongside renewables, create jobs, rebuild the nuclear manufacturing supply chain, and power hybrid energy systems for industry as well as for space propulsion. Energy Communities Alliance
  • The US will accelerate private-sector investment in clean energy, strengthen supply chains across the board, and create new well-paid jobs and opportunities for people and businesses. MacroBusiness
  • Out of the around 250,000 jobs that could emerge in the EV supply chain by 2035, nearly 71% are linked to the manufacturing of batteries, battery cells and battery materials. Autovista24
  • To achieve the RePowerEU targets by 2030, EU leaders will need to address the next set of challenges: filling the 2022-2025 action gap to deliver on structural gas reduction, boost supply chains, grow clean jobs and ramp up renovations. E3G
  • We want to see the EU harness the potential of the green transition to create jobs, advance technology and make Europe more resilient, by reducing strategic dependence on global supply chains. The Party of European Socialists
  • If the U.S. cannot establish a secure and stable supply chain for lithium battery technology within its borders, other countries will enjoy the economic growth and job creation that lithium battery technology will create. Tech Xplore
  • Creating 1,200 UK shipyard jobs, hundreds of graduate and apprentice opportunities, and an expected 800 further jobs across the UK supply chain, Team Resolute, comprising BMT, Harland & Wolff and Navantia UK, will deliver three Fleet Solid Support ships for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Global Security

Last updated: 24 March 2024



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