The report makes the distinction between green jobs, i.e. new jobs that are created through producing new green goods and services, and greening existing jobs, which involves increasing the sustainability tasks and skills associated with existing jobs. Hence the report accepts the broad definition of green jobs as “jobs that contribute to protecting the environment and reducing the harmful effects human activity has on it (mitigation), or to helping to better cope with current climate change conditions (adaptation)”2. This approach builds on the seminal contribution of the globally-recognised definition of sustainability provided by the World Commission on Environment and Development (the Bruntland report), which emphasised the broader perspective of sustainability encompassing economic, social and environmental dimensions.