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Climate change an opportunity to create 500,000 new jobs, say ACTU and ACF

Australia’s response to climate change is an opportunity to create more than half a million new “green jobs” in six emerging industries over the next 20 years, but it will require the federal government to mandate deep, early carbon emissions reductions and help the industries develop domestic and international markets, according to a report jointly commissioned by the ACTU and the Australian Conservation Foundation.