As the number of renewable energies grows, we can observe the benefits on a large scale, such as a the employment in sustainable mobility. Beyond wind farms and solar panels, one of the most relevant advances is green mobility and the policies aimed at promoting it. “Green transport” arises as a solution to the production of gasses and materials that are toxic to the environment that have been created by the traditional fuels that we use to go from one place to another.
The negative impact of current transportation also includes traffic accidents, excessive noise levels causing noise pollution, severe congestion, and reduced opportunities for physical activity. The adoption of sustainable measures to remedy this negative impact could create 18 million jobs worldwide, according to the ILO.
For these reasons, the alternative of sustainable mobility has been promoted, which aims not only to transform the quality of life of transport users, but also to increase the number of professionals behind each step to comply with the strategies established in each step of the transition.
Investment & Employment
The investment that a country makes in its transport system will be vital for its development, since it will have an impact on the economy and people’s quality of life. In Spain, the introduction of sustainable mobility means the possibility of creating between 860,000 and 1.4 million jobs. In addition, it could involve up to 54,000 million euros by 2040, which represents 5% of Spanish annual GDP, according to data from the president of Ifema Madrid and the president general manager of Renault Spain.
In addition to this, according to the Milan Monza Brianza Lodi Chamber of Commerce, in Italy it is estimated that there are 15,000 sustainable mobility companies, which employed 87,000 workers in 2019. Likewise, in Denmark it is expected that the adoption of a model of Shared bikes create at least 75,000 new jobs, according to the WHO.
Sustainable mobility is an excellent opportunity to create jobs at any level of a country’s economy, so these actions must be continued and more practices that promote job creation and the introduction of trained professionals to the renewable energy sector must be continued. .
