A low-carbon chemical industry ‘could create 29m jobs and double turnover’
by Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#63J6S)
New report explains benefits of adopting more efficient technology and warns failure to do so could mean climate chaos
Adopting more efficient and low-carbon technology could create 29m new jobs and double the turnover of the chemicals industry, one of the world's biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, according to a new report.
Failure to do so could condemn the world to climate chaos, however, as the climbing emissions from the manufacture of chemicals could result in a global temperature rise of as much as 4C above pre-industrial levels, which would bring catastrophe.
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