'Greening' economies may be the best way to save them - Telegraph
...Dr Rajendra Pachauri, who had been everywhere in Copenhagen, slipped in as quietly as possible for a few hours, made his excuses for the row that has engulfed his organisation over the past weeks, and left.
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Green technologies also seem to provide plenty of jobs. Exploiting renewables now employs 2.3 million people worldwide, more than the entire oil and gas industries, even though they contribute a small fraction of the amount of energy. They provide several times as much work per dollar invested than fossil fuels, with other green measures like recycling and saving energy proving even more job-intensive.
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