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Green Skills in a Lifelong Learning
Perspective
Francesca Sperotti
Adapt Researcher
Karlsruhe, 29 October 2010
Outline:
1.The shift to a low-carbon economy: impacts on the labour market
2.Defining and identifying «green jobs»
3.Defining and identifying «green skills»
4.Lifelong learning perspective
5.Recommendations: the role of the social dialogue
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1. The shift to a low-carbon economy is
affecting labour markets
It has been acknowledged
that…
Open questions
some additional jobs will be
created
How many?
some employment will be
substituted
Why? which is the main driver?
jobs may be eliminated without
direct replacement
Will they really disappear?
many existing jobs will simply be
transformed
Why?
(UNEP, ILO, 2008)
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One common variable
CHANGE in SKILLS
New Skills?
Which skills?
Traditional skills?
A mix?
“Topping – up”
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2. Defining and identifying «green jobs»
• How can we define «green jobs»?
Ambiguity
«Any jobs that help the improvement of current environmental conditions
towards an economy that does not generate pollution or waste and it is
hyper-efficient in its use of energy, water, and materials» (OECD,2010)
Any jobs?
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Can «green
jobs» reduce EU
unemployment
rates?
How many
jobs will be
created?
EC, Monthly Monitor, October, 2010
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EC, Monthly Monitor, October, 2010
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3. Defining and identifying «green skills»
• How can we define «green skills»?
« traditional skills that are put in use in
environmental related sectors and
activities» (OECD, 2010)
« a new set of skills absent in the current labour markets
but that will be needed in the future, such as knowledge
of sustainable materials, carbon foot-printing skills and
environmental impact assessment skills» (CEDEFOP,
2010)
« Generic? Specific? technical? »
(CEDEFOP, 2010)
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«Green Skills»
Generic
Specific
•strategic planning
•Leadership
•adaptability/transferability
•systems and risk analysis
•Coordination
•Entrepreneurship
•knowledge of sustainable
materials
•carbon foot printing skills
•environmental impact
assessment skills
«Green Skills» as such do not exist
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Skills for green jobs are not only something narrowly limited to fulfil a job profile’s
requirements. They go beyond, including an increased awareness of climate change,
commitment to a more sustainable life style, and eco-sustainable behaviours. They can be
developed both in the working place as well as in the other learning experiences that
characterize people’s course of life
«Green
skills»
Lifelong
learning
perspective
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4. Lifelong learning perspective
• “skills mismatch”
• The educational and working life of individuals are both fertile field of active and
continuous process of skills expression and development
• focus should be on human capital development, conceived as a lifelong learning process
• What about “greening lifelong learning”?
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DID YOU KNOW?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sXQ0iGUiHM&feature=related
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Adult worker
young workers
students
all segments of population
Lifelong Learning
Educational system
Formal/informal/non formal
Work-based /in-job training
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GREENING LIFELONG LEARNING
Long-term Perspective: education and training throughout people’s
lives
• Investment in human capital = main driver for change
• shared responsibility = continuity
• empowers people to develop and use their potential and to manage change
• combine different education and training types and levels, work and life experience
• to value learning experiences
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5. Recommendations: the role of the social dialogue
1. Promoting green awareness in education;
2. Supporting education system in the promotion of multidisciplinary learning environments
and in undertaking broader view of how competences are defined and acquired;
3. Support and encourage continuous acquisition of additional competences;
4. Support a framework that includes the recognition of informal learning mechanisms,
accreditation of prior learning, and increasing scope for “train the trainer” programmes;
5. Develop a closer working relationship between needs of industry and the formal
education and training system;
6. Better coordination between those developing environmental policies, those managing
the transition to a low-carbon economy, and those developing skills training; in particular
support training of trainers through rapidly developed “greening” of technological module;
7. Greening the working environments through green representatives at work.
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REFERENCES
Cristina Martinez Fernandez, Carlos Hinojosa, Gabriela Miranda, Greening Jobs and Skills. The local labour market implications of addressing climate
change, Paris: OECD, 8 February 2010
BEGG Iain, ERHEL Christine and MORTENSEN Jørgen, Medium-term Employment challenges. CEPS Special Report, January 2010
G.A. CALZADA, R.M. JARA, J.R. RALLO JULIAN, Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources. Universidad “Rey Juan
Carlos”, Madrid, 2009
CEDEFOP, Skills for Green Jobs. European Synthesis Report. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2010
CEDEFOP, Skills for Green Jobs. Country report: United Kingdom, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. 2010
CEDEFOP, Skillsnet Sectoral Flash. Green economy. June 2009
CEDEFOP, Future skills needs for the green economy. Thessaloniki, Greece, 6-7 October 2008.
Greenpeace, Working for the Climate. Renewable Energy & Green Job Revolution. 2009
ECORYS, Programmes to promote environmental skills - Final Report. ECORYS Netherlands BV, Rotterdam, 30 June 2010
ETUC, The Climate Change, the Industrial Policies and the Way out of Crisis. 2009
European Commission, New Skills for New Jobs Anticipating and matching labour market and skills needs. COM(2008) 868 final, Brussels, 16
December 2008
Expert Group on New Skills for New Jobs, New Skills for New Jobs: Action Now. A Report prepared for the European Commission, February 2010.
ILO, World of Work Report. The Global Jobs Crisis and Beyond. 2009
Peter Szovics, Manfred Tessaring, Clive Walmsley, John McGrath, Identification of future skill needs for the green economy. CEDEFOP, 7 October 2008.
UNEP, ILO (2008), Green Jobs – Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable, Low-Carbon World. Report produced by Worldwatch Institute and
commissioned by UNEP, ILO, IOE, ITUC, Nairobi
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