Press release 17/2020 from 09.04.2020 | Last changed: 22.04.2020
Employment numbers in environmental protection sector rising steadily
… particularly dynamic development, growing by a whole 2.9 percent between 2016 and 2017 (compared to 1.3 percent general growth in employment). With 1.5 … total employment in the industry. However, more than 30,000 jobs were lost between 2016 and 2017 in the renewable energies sector, 26,000 of which were in the wind energy sector alone. While job losses in the wind energy sector between 2016 and 2017 were mainly due to lower exports, further job losses are currently a …