ABSTRACT
The firm's technology and activity are oriented in order to decrease the flow of polluting rejects per time-period. Cleaner production technologies are the instrument of a preventative strategy to minimise the impacts of production on the environment. The adoption of cleaner production technology by a firm cannot be considered as only a succession of incremental innovations. In the new industrial system in which cleaner technology is used, employment appears as a result of the way in which the labour factor is reorganised. The chapter analyses the evolution of job demand in a firm that has adopted use of cleaner technology without modifying, in an ecological sense, its overall production methods. It looks at changes to labour demand in firms that use cleaner production technology. As a result of the various international conferences on greenhouse gas reduction, many studies on the economic impacts, notably on employment levels, of environmental policy relating to greenhouse gas emissions have been carried out.
