Mobility [New] Clean energy employment grew 3.6% in 2018 in the US, adding 110,000 net new jobs, and employers expect 6% job growth in 2019. [New] Utilities led by RWE AG and unions covering the mining, chemicals and metals industry warn that jobs will be lost and competitiveness hurt if Germany closes coal plants too quickly. [New] The Polish mining industry is expected to lost 41,000 jobs by 2030 and the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Romania are expected to lose a further 10,000 each. [New] Blockchain and deeper mining of data will be major trends in 2018, but also believes that the IoT will start driving changes in the jobs market. [New] Saudi Arabian Mining Company Maaden signed an agreement with Alcoa to expand its mining capacity in Ras Al Khair Industrial City by investing $500 mln in a deal expected to create 500 jobs by 2020. [New] With many new mining projects on the horizon in Nunavut and Yukon, growth is expected to take off over the next five years. [New] By 2050, there will be new jobs for space exploration, space mining, space travel and even space hotels. [New] In comparison the total global economy is expected to expand 2.7% per annum while the mining and agriculture sectors are forecast to grow 2.0% and 2.2% per annum respectively. [New] Robotics and automation will displace 24.7 million jobs and create 14.9 million new jobs by 2027. [New] Coal mining will play no significant role in future US employment trends, Trump or no Trump. [New] The use of U.S.-produced wood pellet fuel blended with coal in large utility power stations could sustain coal mining jobs. [New] Jobs that rely on hand-eye coordination will be strongly affected by a new wave of flexible robots that will take over tasks in agriculture, mining, construction, and surgery. [New] Job growth will occur in categories that are tied to population and housing growth and to an expansion of existing commercial contracts in mining, agriculture and even manufacturing. [New] There is little hope that South Africa's manufacturing, mining, electricity, construction and transport sectors will create jobs unless commodity prices strengthen. [New] Jobs growth in Queensland will overwhelmingly come from the services sector from now on. [New] Far in 2016 over 2000 mining jobs have been cut and many more are forecast to go in the sector. [New] Infrastructure spending in Africa is expected to revive economic growth and help create jobs in a number of sectors such as agriculture and mining. [New] Employment in government, utilities, manufacturing, agriculture and information are expected to decline. [New] Significant efforts by mining companies and governments will be required to encourage more Aboriginal people and under-represented groups into available mining jobs. [New] An impressive 47,000 will have jobs in non- mining businesses impacted by the growth in mining output. [New] 16,930 Northerners will occupy new mining jobs at the end of the 2011-20 forecast period. [New] Mining employment is expected to begin a gradual decline starting in 2016 and will extend over the remainder of the forecast period. Last updated: 14 July 2019
