You can’t get the job.
What?
You can’t get the job IF you don’t have the skills.
The solution? Education.
Yet there is a green-skills gap: shortage of green skills to fill jobs created by the green transition.
💡Eco-job facts
-Jobs in the eco space have been growing by 8% every year for the last five years
-But green skills have been growing by less (max 6%)
-Eco skills are one of the most useful things for children to acquire
🚨Problems
-You can’t do what you don’t know
-Universities globally teach more about fossil fuels than renewable energy
-The demand for green skills outstrips current skills
-Sustainability is not static, it is shifting – it changes all the time, so skills need to be in motion too
🙌Solutions
-*EDUCATE our children! (*in caps, because education is absolutely key for the green transition!). This is where real change starts 🌈
-The Office for Climate Education brings climate-change education to classrooms worldwide
-The Climate Change Communication and Education (CCE) project (2022) has been developed to teach an all-inclusive method: to-know, to-be, to-do & to live together
-EARTHDAY.ORG invests heavily into building climate literacy around the world. The site is a hub for educational resources
-Governments should set out climate-change educational frameworks for schools and universities to adopt
🙌What can we do?
-We are all part of the future, and we can all help shape it
-Once again – we must educate our children
-Start to inform yourself. The eco space is extremely vast, so think about what part interest you and see what action(s) you can take
-Share what you are learning with those around you; your kids, your friends, your family, your colleagues
-Every action counts
👉You can start right here today with my eco-Halloween events guide. It’s full of simple and playful eco tips that are totally do-able, and it will make you generally more aware of eco living. eco-Halloween guide
👌We all love a bonus!
-The demand for green skills will always go up and will always be necessary, so these skills are an asset for life
-Research shows that earning potential will go up by an estimated 3% when a person has sustainability knowledge
On that note, happy Friday!
(Sources: World Economic Forum, LinkedIn, The Sunday Times, UCEM, UNESCO, OCE, EARTHDAY.ORG)