The drive for the global community – including national governments, businesses, and organisations, to address the environmental impact of fossil fuel use is altering the way in which many industries function. These new regulatory and technological requirements will change the way we work, and thus the skills needed to succeed. The worrying findings at present are that the demand for green skills is set to rapidly outpace the number of skilled workers.
Now in its third year, ZCAs 30,000-word report forecasts key workplace demographic and recruitment changes up to 2031, and examines the following:
- Industry focus & analysis: An industry level study of how the requirements of the green transition are influencing the skills and technology requirements of organisations as they tread the path to sustainability and net zero. The key industries reviewed are:
- Agriculture
- Energy & mining
- Construction
- Education
- Finance
- Healthcare
- Manufacturing
- Retail
- Real estate
- Travel
- Entertainment & recreation
- Transport and logistics
- Information & communication
- Professional, scientific & technical
- Other
- Global green jobs legislation analysis: A clarification of the definition of green jobs and an evaluation of the global, regional and national level governmental mechanisms which are driving their growth. Key mechanisms in focus include but are not limited to:
- UN sustainable development goals
- The European green deal and green jobs agenda
- French skills investment plan
- Germany’s ‘Federal Government’s Skilled Labour Strategy’
- Japan’s ‘Green Growth Strategy through Achieving Carbon Neutrality in 2050’
- ZCA green skills in the workplace survey: survey of US (United States) adults aged between 18 and 65 to understand both prevalence of, and attitudes towards, green skills. The data includes a quantitative assessment of the education of the group as well as ranking the importance of different organisational climate credentials and workplace culture components. Key takeaways focus on:
- The expectations that workers have of their employer both in terms of climate credentials and workplace culture
- The most crucial aspects of an organisation that will result in the retention of talent
- The green skills mix of the workforce and how it compares to organisational need
- ZCA global green skills gap forecast: A proprietary top-down population forecast that projects the working population and the proportion of it that possesses green skills. It moves further to predict both the growth in green jobs and green skilled employees. The disparity between the two predicts how the global green skills gap will change in the coming 5 years. The forecast includes industry data to the same granularity as our industry focus and analysis and also includes regional projections (North America, Western Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Russia & Eastern Europe, Middle East & North Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa) as well as projections for 14 key economies (Canada, United States, France, Italy, Germany, Norway, Sweden, UK, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Russia)
