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Alexandra Luana SMĂRĂNDOIU (SANDA)
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti
It is considered that the attitude towards environmental issues can represent a key differentiating factor among countries’ performance levels, considering the tight competitive climate. On its way to become a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy, through social and economic integration, European Union faces the problems of great proportion of social imbalances and wider inequalities. Smart and proactive attitudes towards environmental issues are carefully underpinned by national policies, under the close surveillance of European Union, in order to reach targeted objectives of becoming an example of smart, sustainable and inclusive integration mechanism. Green jobs sector, in the light of environmental modernization, is regarded as an opportunity for reaching inclusivity and sustainability at the same time, within a modern competitive market economy. In this limited resources economy, the paper presents the social actions taken in the light of EU 2020 Strategy, by presenting the slight evolution, yet little, of the European green labour market, as a social response to the commitment for effects of greenhouse gas emissions reduction, renewable energy sources used in final energy consumption and energy efficiency indicators. At the mid-term for the 10 years strategic timeline, the paper performs an exhaustive evaluation for the “green” jobs labour market, emphasizing the environmental sustainability at the level of the selected EU countries.

ŒCONOMICA no. 1-2/2016
Keywords: sustainability, employment, environment, European Union
JEL: F6, Q20, Q50
Green Labour Market: A Response to Environmental Modernization. EU Case [Piaţa verde a muncii: un răspuns la modernizarea ecologică. Cazul UE]