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Only 17% of CEOs Invest in Climate Risk Protections for Workers
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Roughly 1.7 million workers are likely to lose their jobs as the US moves away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy sources . The energy transition is not as simple as shifting workers to renewable energy jobs. Many coal-mining communities have not recovered from job losses . Harvard economist Gordon Hanson is considering ways to protect these workers from economic shocks through the Harvard Kennedy School's Reimagining the Economy project . Hanson explores how existing tools, such as unemployment insurance, can be used to buffer the shocks of the energy transition . His work aims to help distressed economic regions turn themselves around and avoid the pitfalls experienced by coal communities .

Lessons from the coal industry serve as a warning of the potential harm caused by rapi...

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