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Spain resorts to green economy for jobs
[Iran Press TV] Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has expressed his faith in green economic polices to ease the unemployment crisis in Spain.Speaking at the G20 meeting in the South Korean capital of Seoul, Zapatero said that ecologically sustainable industries can produce roughly one million jobs for his country in the upcoming decade, China's Xinhua news agency reported Thursday. Spain, at the present time, has more than four million unemployed workers. The country nevertheless has been a European leader in green technology with only Germany producing more electricity by means of wind power than Spain. If the green option is taken, Zapatero believes it will enable his country to climb out of the current economic crisis it faces. "We estimate that if we group them all together then sustainable industries, sustainable transport, sustainable education and eco-industries have the potential to create around a million jobs in the economy of the sustainable environment in the next decade," the Spanish premier further explained. Zapatero recently held a conference with industrialists, including representatives of the most important companies from Spain, such as Iberdrola, Telefonica and Repsol. "The green economy represents a great potential to generate employment in the future and also to help with technological advances and to make economies more competitive," the Spanish prime minister said during the meeting. Spain aims to double the amount of freight that travels to the country by rail in the next 10 years and in addition it plans to have 250,000 electrically powered cars on its roads by 2015. Posted by: Fred 2010-11-13 |
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