Pace of Green Job Growth in New York City Is Slow

Inside Climate News · By Lauren Dalban · last updated April 22, 2025 – 1:06 AM

Green job training programs are popular across the city, but will there be jobs for the New Yorkers who graduate from them?

By Lauren Dalban

NEW YORK—Early last year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams made a bold promise—green economy jobs in the city would increase to nearly 400,000 by 2040. These jobs would include anything from solar panel installation, to caring for green spaces, to designing ways to decarbonize buildings.

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