With a regional GDP contribution of $47 billion and over half a million jobs created in 2010, the clean energy economy is alive and well on the West Coast.
And the potential for continued growth in jobs and investment is enormous with more regional collaboration, according to a report released last week by members of the Pacific Coast Collaborative. At the this year’s GLOBE Conference on Business and the Environment in Vancouver, B.C., three U.S. states (Oregon, Washington, and California) along with the province of British Colombia have endorsed an action plan to further grow the clean economy along the West Coast.
“We have proof that our actions are already working…. Now we want to go even faster – and create up to one million jobs in the next decade through the 2012 Action Plan on Jobs,” said Washington Governor and Pacific Coast Collaborative Chair Chris Gregoire in a press release.
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