Net zero transition to mean significant change for 1.3 million workers

The UK’s experience of structural change through deindustrialisation during the 1970s and 1980s drove up unemployment, concentrated among particular parts of the population, and left deep scars on some parts of the country. However, the net zero transition will have impact on jobs across the economy but is unlikely to follow the same path as these previous episodes of change. Molly Broome, Stefano Cellini, Kathleen Henehan, Charlie McCurdy, Capucine Riom, Anna Valero, and Guglielmo Ventura assess the likely scale – and nature – of labour market change brought on by the net zero transition over the next decade.