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HOLDING OUT FOR A ZERO: assessing the UK’s climate progress
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Is the Transition Going to Be Fair to Workers?
There are many, many workers working in high carbon sectors who are afraid of what the transition means. We did a study last year that looked at a range of high carbon sectors and showed we found 660,000 jobs that were at risk of being lost or off-short. Those jobs, what was needed to maintain them going forward, was investment into decarbonisation - future-proofing. There's a large number of high carbon jobs which won't necessarily disappear, let's say, in manufacturing steel and currently using coal-fired blast furnaces. If this transition is going to succeed, it's going to be fair to consumers, but it's also crucially going to beFair to
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