Despite global layoffs, green employment is rising following China’s carbon neutrality pledge, writes Jiang Mengnan for China Dialogue Around the world, tech and finance companies have been laying staff off. In 2022, tech firms’ payrolls fell by 164,000 employees, with a further 166,000 jobs cut in the first quarter of 2023, according to tracking platform Layoffs.fyi. In China, youth unemployment is also rising, hitting 20% this April. And yet for …
