Green jobs as a new opportunity to increase Turkey's employment potential: A case of TRB1 region

Global warming and climate change are among the most important problems of the 21st century, and in this context, the issue of sustainability comes up. In order to ensure sustainability, economies continue to develop and implement green policies to reduce the factors that cause global warming and climate change. The issue of green businesses is among the issues raised at this point and it is considered as one of the important policies in the context of taking precautions against global warming. The green job brought by the understanding of green businesses, which emerged as a result of the effect of climate change on the understanding of business, constitutes the main subject of this study. In the United Nations Environment Program, the concept of "green jobs" was defined as green-collar occupations and the concept was expressed as the occupational group that aims to minimize environmental threats in all sectors. In the literature, blue-collar workers are defined as labor-intensive employment that produces on the production line, and white-collar workers are defined as skilled employment working in corporate sectors. In the literature, blue-collar workers are defined as labor-intensive employment that produces on the production line, and white-collar workers are defined as skilled employment working in corporate sectors. Green-collar occupations that have emerged in recent years are defined as those employed in production activities that do not harm the environment, as well as occupations operating in non-governmental organizations that take care of the benefit of society. In this study, it is aimed to reveal the green employment capacity of the region, which can be an alternative solution to the unemployment problem, which is one of the main problems of the region, by determining the green business capacity of the TRB1 region and classifying the green occupation. Keywords: Green Economy, Green Jobs, TRB1 Region