UK "green" job market swelling amid recession

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s “green” job market is thriving despite tough economic times and mounting redundancies in other sectors, environmental recruiters said on Friday.

Acre Resources saw job opportunities in Britain’s renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainability and corporate social responsibility sectors grow by 58 percent in the past year, but gave no absolute figures on the size of the green job market.

“The green job market has proven resilient despite the recession and we have seen a steady increase of jobs being created,” said Andy Cartland, managing director at Acre.

Job losses are mounting in other sectors including banking and heavy industry, with Tata Steel and banks Nomura and Lloyds announcing thousands of new UK redundancies this week.

Reuters