…However they’re defined, green jobs have grown over the past few years. And that has predictably piqued interest from economists and government, said Julia Haggerty, an analyst who has evaluated green job counts for Headwaters Economics, based in Montana.
“It may seem like there’s a lot of attention, but that would probably also be true if we were talking about biotech 15 years ago, or any other nascent part of the economy that’s seen rapid growth,” Haggerty said. One of the major reasons governments want to track green jobs is to validate or inform policies that affect the industry, she said…