Climate Smart & Climate Ready Conference Business Track #2 on April 20, 2013 at Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca, NY. Dee Gamble, Tompkins County Cooperative Extension. Clean Energy Cluster: Business Opportunities Brought by Climate Change.

1. Dee Gamble – Energy and Sustainability Manager
615 Willow Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14850
(t) 607-272-2292
(c) 607-279-7197
(e) dee.gamble@cornell.edu
www.ccetompkins.org/energy

2. Climate Change=New Job Opportunities
• Workers trained to design, manufacture, install, operate, and
maintain a host of innovative renewable energy and energy
efficiency technologies.
• Workers and employers must change the way they use and
conserve natural resources.
• Significant opportunity to create viable new jobs through
policies designed to reduce emissions.
• Environmental policies can stimulate the creation of jobs in
areas like energy and materials efficiency, renewable energy,
remanufacturing, and recycling, and in extending the life-span
of products.