Careers and
Green Skills

Green skills include science, engineering, architecture and planning, resource management, systems skills, complex problem solving, monitoring, agriculture and skills in education pathways. With the Government’s new target to cut emissions by 78% by 2035 and multilateral pledge to protect 30% of land and sea for nature by 2030, the UK’s economy is structurally changing and green skills are becoming increasingly sought after in the mainstream labour market. On the pathway to net zero, almost every job will become a green job and green skills will be a near universal requirement the same as literacy, maths and ICT (GEO-6 for Youth, 2021).

Some green jobs help to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss directly such as environment, science and engineering jobs. Industries set to experience the highest growth in demand for green jobs include construction, manufacturing of electrical machinery, renewable electricity production and regenerative agriculture (GEO-6 for Youth, 2021). Whilst fossil fuel industries will decline, it is clear that the vast majority of jobs can become green jobs as traditional sectors such as hospitality, creative industries, health, manufacturing, waste, regulatory, research and design, agriculture and forestry, environmental protection, green construction, energy and transportation are transformed into green sectors.