Greener Skills and Jobs for a Low-Carbon Future

Oecd

No 2013/10, OECD Green Growth Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: Green skills, that is, skills needed in a low-carbon economy, will be required in all sectors and at all levels in the workforce as emerging economic activities create new (or renewed) occupations. Structural changes will realign sectors that are likely to decline as a result of the greening of the economy and workers will need to be retrained accordingly. The successful transition to a low-carbon economy will only be possible if workers can flexibly adapt and transfer from areas of decreasing employment to new industries. This paper suggests that the role of skills and education and training policies should be an important component of the ecological transformation process.

Date: 2013-12-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene, nep-env and nep-pke
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1787/5k3v1dtzlxzq-en (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oec:envddd:2013/10-en

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in OECD Green Growth Papers from OECD Publishing Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().