Incentives needed to adopt technologies - By SAMANTHA ENSLIN-PAYNE
Some 114 000 green jobs could be created in two years if the government’s intention to incentivise green industries is successful.
With almost 1 million jobs shed across the economy last year, incentives for investment in industries that are designed to mitigate the effects of climate change in order to create a large number of green jobs is one of the government’s responses. A focus on green jobs is part of the new industrial policy plan that is due to go to the cabinet lekgotla this month.
