Finance’s ‘just transition’ role in farming, forestry and fisheries

As soaring energy prices bring in sharp relief the challenges of the just transition to a greener economy, a new report suggest areas of intervention for policymakers as well as for banks and investors.

Sabrina Muller and Nick Robins at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, which is part of the London School of Economics, worked on the premise that a “nature-positive economy” could create 395 million jobs by 2030, but that these would be mirrored by job losses too – some 120 million fewer agricultural jobs in 2030 as a result of net-zero policies.