未来能源研究所-找到合适的工作：哪些工作能很好地匹配化石燃料工人的技能？（英）

Finding the Right Fit: What Jobs Offer a Good Match for Fossil Fuel Workers’ Skills?Jacob Greenspon and Daniel RaimiWorking Paper 25-06 March 2025Resources for the FutureiAbout the Authors Jacob Greenspon is a doctoral student in economics at the University of Oxford and an economist with experience working at several think tank, academic, and governmental organizations. He holds degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Queen’s University, and McGill University. Daniel Raimi is a fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF) and a lecturer at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He works on a range of energy policy issues with a focus on tools to enable an equitable energy transition. He received his master’s degree in public policy from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and his bachelor’s degree in music from Wesleyan University.Acknowledgements We are grateful to Arvind Ravikumar from the University of Texas–Austin, for advice on the methane detection and abatement industry; Eleanor Krause from the University of Kentucky, for helpful comments on an earlier draft; and Brianna Lyssy and Joe Spencer from BakerHughes, for providing information about the occupational composition of the carbon capture and sequestration industry. Finding the Right Fit: What Jobs Offer a Good Match for Fossil Fuel Workers’ Skills?iiAbout RFFResources for the Future (RFF) is an independent, nonprofit research institution in Washington, DC. Its mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement. RFF is committed to being the most widely trusted source of research insights and policy solutions leading to a healthy environment and a thriving economy. Working papers are research materials circulated by their authors for purposes of information and discussion. They have not necessarily undergone formal peer review. The views expressed here are those of the individual authors and may differ from those of other RFF experts, its officers, or its directors.Sharing Our WorkOur work is available for sharing and adaptation under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. You can copy and redistribute our material in any medium or format; you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made, and you may not apply additional restrictions. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.Resources for the FutureiiiAbstractThe imperative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions necessitates major changes in the domestic and global energy sector. However, one concern is w