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• [New] Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar's leadership has reaffirmed Trinidad and Tobago's credibility on the world stage and delivered concrete benefits that will translate into jobs, investment, security and improved quality of life for citizens. Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs
• [New] Access to space underpins critical services including communications, navigation, climate monitoring, disaster response and national security, and that Gilmour Space's growth will strengthen Australia's advanced manufacturing base while creating highly skilled regional jobs. SPACE & DEFENSE
• [New] Cyber security analyst jobs are projected to grow by 31 percent-much faster than most other fields. larsbirkeland.com
• The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has refreshed its evidence base on the potential for renewable electricity technologies to support domestic jobs in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). GOV.UK
• The UK and European nations have signed the Hamburg Declaration, committing to deliver 100 GW of joint offshore wind projects in the North Sea by 2050, boosting energy security, driving down costs and creating thousands of jobs. TEAM LEWIS UK | London
• Boosting the cyber sector will deliver the double dividend of producing home grown jobs as well as protecting growth in other sectors by improving cyber security. GOV.UK
• The Trump administration is proposing to tighten Social Security Disability Insurance eligibility by limiting how age is considered and by using a new list of jobs that reflects a modern economy, a change that could disqualify many older blue-collar workers. RuralOrganizing
• Climate impacts will affect agriculture the most, a key sector in the poorest countries and a major source of income, food security, nutrition, jobs, livelihoods, and export earnings. Yahoo News
• In terms of jobs, health, biodiversity and increased food security, the return on investment is estimated at 16 to one by 2030. Le Monde.fr
• By 2025, nearly half of cyber security leaders will change jobs, 25% for different roles entirely due to multiple work-related stressors. c2
• Going by Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy, the USA will focus on western hemisphere dominance, tying access to cheap and abundant energy resources to US' economic power, jobs and technological dominance. Carbon Copy
• 235 million Nigerians are hoping - for jobs, security, opportunity, and a better future for their children. NCIRCULAR
• Nearly 300 million workers continue to live in extreme poverty, earning less than US$3 a day, while informality is rising, with 2.1 billion workers expected to hold informal jobs by 2026, with limited access to social protection, rights at work, and job security. International Labour Organization
• Rio Grande LNG, and some Rio Grande Valley officials, say it will not impact the local shrimping industry or air quality and will instead provide jobs and energy security. Pulitzer Center
• With demand for qualified cybersecurity professionals and the number of information security jobs projected to grow upward of 31% by 2029, academic institutions are increasingly offering students interdisciplinary curriculum that includes cybersecurity. Forbes
• The 2024 ban on west coast open-net pen salmon farming by the Trudeau government threatens Canada's food security and jobs, and undermines the Buy Canadian push amid tariff uncertainty in the US. SeafoodNews

Last updated: 02 March 2026