{"id":518648,"date":"2026-06-04T17:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/518648\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:36:28","slug":"eu-green-jobs-which-activities-employ-the-most-people-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/518648\/","title":{"rendered":"EU green jobs: which activities employ the most people? – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Employment <\/a>in the EU<\/a> green economy has grown by an average of 6% per year since 2014, reaching 5.8 million full-time equivalents<\/a> in 2023. But which economic activities employ the most people and have seen the highest growth?\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to data<\/a> on the European environmental goods and services sector accounts<\/a>, green employment in construction grew the most between 2014 and 2023, rising from 0.7 million full-time equivalents to 1.6 million, an average 11% annual growth. This activity had the highest employment and included jobs in the construction of energy-efficient buildings, renewable energy plants as well as energetic refurbishment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although green employment in agriculture, forestry and fishing was 0.7 million full-time equivalents in 2023, this activity registered the second highest annual growth between 2014 and 2023 (+5%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The third activity that grew the most in relative terms since 2014 was green manufacturing, from 0.7 million full-time equivalents to 1.0 million in 2023, an average annual growth of 5%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Source dataset: env_egss_emp<\/a><\/p>\n

Employment in energy from renewables grew by 79% since 2014<\/p>\n

Employment in the environmental economy can also be analysed by environmental purpose. Between 2014 and 2023, employment in energy from renewables grew the most, from 0.4 million full-time equivalents to 0.8 million (+79%). This was followed by employment in the protection of soil, surface and groundwater, up from 0.4 million full-time equivalents to 0.7 million (+60%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Significant relative growth was also registered in the air and climate and materials recovery and savings domains, +48% and +47%, respectively, in 2023 compared with 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Employment in wastewater management grew by 38% in the same period, reaching 0.5 million full-time equivalents, and employment in waste management increased by 30%. In 2023, waste management was the top employment domain with 0.9 million full-time equivalents, representing 16% of the total environmental employment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Source dataset: env_egss_emp<\/a><\/p>\n

This news article marks 2 crucial events on the environmental agenda: the EU Green Week 2026<\/a> and World Environment Day<\/a>. The EU Green Week, taking place in Brussels from 3-4 June, highlights how a nature-positive economy is essential for Europe\u2019s prosperity, resilience, and competitiveness. World Environment Day, held annually on 5 June since 1973, focuses on collective action to address environmental issues, restore ecosystems and drive positive sustainable solutions to build a better future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Employment in the EU green economy has grown by an average of 6% per year since 2014, reaching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,179,18,82571,88932,74291,19,17],"class_list":["post-518648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-env","tag-environment-and-energy","tag-event-driven-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116693054083023222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518648","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=518648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}