A record 2.5 million jobs were created in the renewable energy sector in 2023, most of them in China, the International Renewable Energy Agency and International Labor Organization said on Tuesday.
Nearly two-thirds of the world's new solar and wind power capacity was installed in China, which added a total of 1.84 million renewable energy jobs, they said.
Global employment in the industry rose 18 percent from 13.7 million to 16.2 million, Abu Dhabi-based IRENA and the ILO, a United Nations agency, said in a joint report.
But the report raised concerns about an "uneven global picture" with China accounting for 7.4 million jobs or 46 percent of the total.
The sector employs 1.8 million people in the European Union, 1.56 million in Brazil and nearly a million in the United States and India.
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