Back in the summer, the Princeton Review delivered its Green Rating of US colleges - a measure of how environmentally friendly such institutions are. Ranging from 60 to 99, the Green Rating ranks over 500 colleges and it’s an important measure for many students. 63% of the 10,300 also surveyed by Princeton Review said that it was important to know a college’s environmental credentials when deciding where to study. But what about the students themselves – how green are they?

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The report, Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World, says that shifting employment and investment patterns adopted in response to the challenges of global warming are already creating new jobs in many sectors and economies, and could create millions more across both the developed and developing world. In sum, UNEP predicts nothing short of a revoluton in the way the world economy will look over the next two decades.

In other highlights, the report has also found that:

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