![]() ![]() While the category of essential work further indicates the kinds of work that may be prioritised in transformation processes, particularly problematic are those deemed both essential for society and incompatible with climate mitigation. Yet, potential for deployment of renewable energy technologies is currently not given for many fields of work that are dependent on fossil fuels. Required are significant reductions of work across all sectors, and its structural reorganisation based on an altered energy basis. We find that the impacts of climate mitigation on work are far more substantial than the literature usually suggests. ![]() ![]() Using a mixed methods approach, we investigate all NACE-classified branches of economic activity, the respective number of persons employed, CO2 emissions, fossil fuel use, renewable energy potential, and the societal importance of work. We conduct an empirical analysis of the impacts of climate mitigation on work across all sectors of the Austrian national economy. Industrial societies are structurally centred and dependent on work, however, the implications for work are insufficiently studied. Climate change mitigation - reducing emissions to zero and substituting fossil fuels through renewable energy within a maximum of two decades - entails major consequences for modern industrial societies and economies. ![]()
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