1st Edition

The Green Skills and Jobs Guide Driving the Net Zero Transition

By Michael Cross Copyright 2027
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

This book is a comprehensive guide to the greening of the economy, detailing the essential skills, jobs, and careers required to develop a thriving sustainable future. The transition towards net zero is creating a wave of new work requiring the redeployment and repurposing of skills and jobs to decarbonise and adapt the economy. Charting this drive for the greening of skills across all sectors... Read more

Part 1: Green Skills and Jobs: Landscape and Core Themes  Introduction: The Green Skills and Jobs Guide: Driving the Net Zero Transition  1. Introduction to the Green Economy  2. Mapping the Green Jobs Landscape  3. Essential Green Skills for the Future  4. Education and Training Pathways for Green Careers: How green skills are developed  5. Innovative Technologies Driving the Green Economy: Skills for Green Innovation  6. Policy and Regulatory Frameworks Supporting Green Jobs and Skills  7. Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Green Economy: Skills Driving the Net Zero Transition  8. Challenges and Barriers in the Green Economy  9. The Global Perspective: Green Jobs and Skills Around the World  10. The Future of Work and Skills in a Green Economy: Towards 2050  11. Foundations of the Net-Zero Transition and Their Demand for Skills  Part 2: Sector Perspective  12. The Blue Economy  13. The foundational industries of the legacy economy: green skills driving the brown economy  14. Renewable Energy: Skills for Powering the Future  15. Sustainable Transport: Skills Driving Green Mobility  16. Green Construction and Building Retrofits: Skills for the Net Zero Built Environment  17. Skills for the Circular Economy: Reducing Waste and Maximising Resource Usage  18. Sustainable Agriculture, Nature, and Food Systems: Skills for Land Use Management  19. Environmental and Climate Science Professionals – Skills for Shaping the Net Zero Transition  20. Green Finance and Policy – Skills for Funding the Transition  21. Design and Digital Skills for the Green Economy  22. Global Perspectives and Future Trends

Biography

Michael Cross leads the research and content creation for the leading podcast and blogging site, The Green Edge, which is read and listened to in over 85 countries. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Regent of the University of Edinburgh. He has set-up and run several successful businesses e.g. Navigate Group (education), Rezatec (spatial analytics). He has also held fellowships at Durham University, City University, Manchester Business School, LSE, Imperial College, and the Technical Change Centre. He also sat on the Boards of Industry Training Bodies for plastics, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and oil.