From the course: Closing the Green Skills Gap to Power a Greener Economy and Drive Sustainability
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What green jobs and skills are in demand?
From the course: Closing the Green Skills Gap to Power a Greener Economy and Drive Sustainability
What green jobs and skills are in demand?
- Sustainability manager, wind turbine technician, solar consultant, ecologist, environmental health and safety specialist, roles that barely existed just a decade ago, today they are the five fastest growing green jobs globally. What might surprise you is that the fastest growing greening jobs are in less-specialized sectors. Greening jobs are those that typically require some level of green skills and where we're seeing a higher level of green skills being applied. Examples include compliance manager, facilities manager, and sales representative. This proves the breadth and scale of the green transition and the thirst for greener and greener skills. To remind you, green skills are those that enable the environmental sustainability of economic activities. The fastest growing green skills are showing up in both sectors we traditionally consider green and also ones we haven't historically thought of as green, areas like fashion…
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