The energy transition is disrupting the U.S. economy and workforce, placing communities that depend on carbon-intensive industries at risk of economic displacement and job losses.
This tool, developed by MIT's Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research, allows policymakers, researchers, and communities to understand how economic, and specifically employment, impacts of the energy transition are likely to be distributed across the United States. We measure this by calculating the average carbon emissions per employee (the "employment carbon footprint", or ECF) of every U.S. county.
Click "Start tutorial" to be guided through the features of the tool, or "Close" to start exploring.
This tool complements the work in Graham, K., & Knittel, C. R. (2024). Assessing the distribution of employment vulnerability to the energy transition using employment carbon footprints. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(7). doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2314773121. See the paper for methodology and key results.
This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC).
Data: 2023, Graham & Knittel, MIT Center for Energy & Environmental Policy
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Tool developed by Kailin Graham, Serena Patel and Paul Sizaire.