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Advocating for sustainable workforce development
To achieve a sustainable future, businesses, government organisations, academic institutions, and nonprofits must collaborate to train unskilled workers for green jobs in the construction and renewable energy sectors. By 2030, this collaboration could reduce emissions by up to 68%, contributing significantly to the global effort to combat climate change.
Investing in workers' training and development benefits the environment and companies seeking to build a skilled and sustainable workforce. This approach helps reduce emissions and improve environmental sustainability, creates jobs, and promotes economic growth.
To ensure the success of green initiatives, it is crucial to establish effective public-private partnerships that provide training and opportunities for workers. By doing so, we can implement short-term tactics that align with long-term visions, enabling workers to contribute to the success of green initiatives both presently and in the future.
By working together, businesses, government organisations, academic institutions, and nonprofits can create a more sustainable future in which we prioritise the well-being of our planet and the people who call it home.
Skills and training
The present shortage of workers in the energy efficiency and retrofit sector is chronic, given the overall timetable for decarbonising properties. This is a point we have repeatedly emphasised in our recent reports. Significant skills gaps also exist in measuring embodied and whole-life carbon and using low-carbon materials. Based on the evidence before us, the Government has not yet responded adequately to our recommendations to develop a retrofit strategy and programme to encourage the development of relevant green skills across the construction trade. (Paragraph 233)
We reiterate our recommendation to develop a retrofit strategy and up-skilling programme for construction to meet the needs of net zero. This should be published before the 2022 summer recess. (Paragraph 234)
Alongside a mandatory requirement to undertake whole-life carbon assessments and a national methodology for evaluations, the Government should make training in undertaking whole-life carbon assessments accessible across all levels of education and the entire supply chain. In response to this report, the Government should set out how the Department for Education plans to achieve this. (Paragraph 235)
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmselect/cmenvaud/346/34607.htm
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