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The labor-market transition from fossil fuel jobs to green energy may be stymied by location.

Simply put, green energy jobs aren鈥檛 in the same places where fossil fuel jobs exist today, new research finds, and they aren鈥檛 likely to naturally arise in those communities in the future. As a result, policymakers should consider targeting job transition resources to fossil-fuel-heavy communities, says Morgan Frank, an assistant professor of informatics and networked systems at the Univ. of Pittsburgh.

鈥淎 policy intervention that creates one million new jobs targeted toward fossil-fuel dominated communities would produce more transitions from fossil fuels to green occupations than a larger policy intervention that creates five million new jobs in a way that is not targeted,鈥� Frank says. 鈥淏eing geotargeted here can do a lot to enable a 鈥榡ust鈥� transition.鈥�

As of 2019, 1.7 million people worked in fossil fuel industries, according to The Brookings Institution. These jobs tend to cluster in particular regions, meaning they have an outsized impact on those areas.

Climate change initiatives often acknowledge the loss of these jobs inherent in a transition to green energy, with policymakers arguing that workers can move to renewable energy professions. For example, the Biden administration鈥檚 Inflation Reduction Act has provisions aiming to create nine million new jobs in climate, energy, and environmental justice, while the European Union鈥檚 Just Transition Mechanism devotes $52 billion to...