World Energy Employment 2023 report

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Key findings

Global employment in the energy sector grew by 3.4 million over pre-pandemic levels to 67 million in 2022.
“Clean energy sectors added 4.7 million jobs globally over the same period and stand at 35 million.
Fossil fuels jobs recovered more slowly after layoffs in 2020 and remain around 1.3 million below pre-pandemic employment levels, at 32 million.
Job growth in the clean energy as well as fossil fuel sector remained positive in India compared to pre-pandemic levels of 2019.
With this, the country saw the fourth-highest number of new clean energy jobs being created in the past three years.
The report mentioned five major sectors of the energy industry that led to maximum job creation post-pandemic.
These sectors were solar PV, wind, electric vehicles (EVs) and battery manufacturing, heat pumps, and critical minerals mining.
These five sectors employed around 9 million workers till now. Out of all the sectors Solar PV emerged as the largest of the sectors with around 4 million jobs.
On the other hand, the manufacturing of EVs and their batteries was the largest source of growth.

Q1) What are Critical Minerals?

It is a metallic or non-metallic element that has two characteristics. It is essential for the functioning of our modern technologies, economies or national security.

Source: Clean energy overtakes fossil fuels in the global job market: IEA report