{"id":426539,"date":"2026-04-08T19:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/426539\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:45:19","slug":"eus-green-jobs-up-by-2-2-million-over-the-last-decade-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/426539\/","title":{"rendered":"EU\u2019s green jobs up by 2.2 million over the last decade &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Employment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Employment <\/a>in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> environmental economy increased from 3.6 million <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Full-time_equivalent_(FTE)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full-time equivalents<\/a> in 2014 to 5.8 million in 2023 (+2.2 million), an average annual growth of 5.5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Compared with 2022, employment in this area grew by 4.2% in 2023, from 5.6 million full-time equivalents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Employment in the environmental economy includes environmental protection activities (e.g. waste and wastewater management and other environmental protection activities) and resource management activities (e.g. energy efficiency measures in construction, renewable energy production, and forest management).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">This information comes from <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/migration-asylum\/international-migration-citizenship\/database\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data <\/a>on the European <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Environmental_goods_and_services_sector_(EGSS)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">environmental goods and services sector<\/a> (EGSS) accounts, published by Eurostat today. This article presents just a handful of findings from the more detailed <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Environmental_economy_%E2%80%93_statistics_on_employment_and_growth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Statistics Explained article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/employment-environmental-economy-2014-2023\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Employment in the EU environmental economy, 2014-2023  (million full-time equivalents). Bar chart- link to full dataset below. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/employment-environmental-economy-2014-2023.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/7b1bff58-2459-4b5a-a279-dea4b73563ed?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2026-03-30T07:46:17Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">env_egss_emp<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2023, the EU\u2019s environmental economy generated \u20ac1.33 <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/7b1bff58-2459-4b5a-a279-dea4b73563ed?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2026-03-30T07:46:17Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">billion <\/a>in <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Output\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">output<\/a>, indicating a 4.3% increase from 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Since 2014, the output of the EU environmental economy has been growing steadily, with an average annual increase of 7.9% in output. Compared with 2014, it almost doubled its output value (\u20ac0.68 billion).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/eu-environmental-economy-output-2014-2023\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EU environmental economy output, 2014-2023  (\u20ac billion). bar chart. link to full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eu-environmental-economy-output-2014-2023.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/94daf034-aff4-4e56-8be2-8d37d4a91d4c?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2026-03-30T07:50:58Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">env_egss_mon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Employment in the EU environmental economy increased from 3.6 million full-time equivalents in 2014 to 5.8 million in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,5720,179,18,82571,88932,19,17],"class_list":["post-426539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-env","tag-environment-and-energy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116370809049396626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}