1. green jobs are jobs in the environment sector. In Austria, every 20th job is a green job, with roughly 11% of the nation’s GDP being generated in this According to Statistics Austria there were 193,029 green jobs in 2011. Of these:
    1. 171,245 were in the manufacturing and service
    2. 21,784 were in the trade of environmental assets and

Between 2008 and 2011 the environmental industry showed a clearly positive trend. While the economy at large only saw an increase in employment by 0.4%, employment in the environment sector registered notable growth, with a growth of

 

2.1%. During the same period the turnover in the environment sector rose by a remarkable 5.1%, thus reaching 32.6 billion euro. www.bmk.gv.at/en/topics/climate-environment/sustainable- development/green-j.