More than 600 skilled, well-paid jobs have been pledged by companies across the region after a campaign led by the Mayor of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin.
The Mayor, elected as the region’s first Mayor in May 2021, is now over halfway to meeting her target of 1,000 new green jobs by 2024.
She marked the milestone achievement with a visit to Eclipse Energy – a Halifax-based company which specialises in helping provide affordable solutions to help lower household energy bills through measures such as insultation and solar panels.
Eclipse Energy has so far pledged to create 100 new jobs and is working with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority on its Better Homes Yorkshire programme which will see hundreds of households benefit from improved insultation and other energy saving measures.
Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire, said: “As we work towards our ambition of creating a net zero carbon region by 2038, it is vital that West Yorkshire has the businesses that will enable that – and, vitally, people with the right skills, on the right career paths to drive forward the change."
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