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At the enterprise level, green jobs can produce goods or provide services that benefit the environment, for example green buildings or clean transportation. However, these green outputs (products and services) are not always based on green production processes and technologies. Therefore green jobs can also be distinguished by their contribution to more environmentally friendly processes. For example, green jobs can reduce water consumption or improve recycling systems. Yet, green jobs defined through production processes do not necessarily produce environmental goods or services.

As illustrated by the diagram below, a distinction can thus be drawn between employment in green economic sectors from an output perspective and job functions in all sectors from an environmentally friendly process perspective. For the ILO, green jobs are all those jobs that fall in the dashed area:

Green jobs are central to sustainable development and respond to the global challenges of environmental protection, economic development and social inclusion. By engaging governments, workers and employers as active agents of change, the ILO promotes the greening of enterprises, workplace practices and the labor market as a whole. These efforts create decent employment opportunities, enhance resourcee efficiency and build low-carbon sustainable societies.

• At least half of the global workforce – the equivalent of1.5 billion people – is affected by the transition to a greener economy.” ILO (2012)
• The transformation to a greener and low-carbon economy could generate up to 60 million additional jobs across economic sectors. ILO (2012)
• “In the EU, 14.6 million direct and indirect jobs exist in the protection of biodiversity and rehabilitation of natural resources and forests.ILO (2012)
• Experiences from Brazil and other countries show that the formalization of some 15-20 million informal waste pickers and their integration into modern recycling systems could have significant economic, social and environmental benefits. ILO (2012)

On 28th May, 2015. More recently, Skill Council for Green Jobs (SCGJ) has been created by MSDE. This Council is promoted by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Ministry of Power and Confederation of Indian Industry.

SCGJ is a registered not for profit society which is being managed by an industry led Governing Council. It would also have sector specific Advisory Board and country wide representation of Industry Members (including MSME’s).