This morning I was checking my Linkedin feed, and received a post from “Linkedin News UK”, which discusses UK jobs which are growing in demand. The article mentioned 25 different jobs, and the first one was the position of “Sustainability Manager”. It furthermore mentioned relevant skills such as carbon footprint accounting, Lifecycle Analysis and Corporate Sustainability Reporting, three skills which are part of our ESSET programme.
These news snippets remind me of an article published by the Dutch Statistical Institute (Statistics Netherlands), which covered the growth of environmental jobs in the Netherlands over the past 20 years. While it was a modest 110.500 (full time) positions in 2005, it increased to a staggering 197.100 positions in 2022. This is almost a doubling of jobs in less than 20 years. And even during the years when there was a slowdown in the economy, this hardly affected the environmental job growth.
Looking at the job market from a global perspective, the World Economic Forum ran an interesting analysis in 2022, with the help of Linkedin’s Global Green Skills Report 2022. It concluded that the number of jobs requiring green skills has grown by 8% over the past five years AND that the number of green skilled workers only grew at 6%. This means that there is a growing gap between a high number of available jobs, and a lesser number of professionals entering the job market (which is good for the starting environmental professional!)
And to conclude I recommend checking the Visual Capitalist’s “The Clean Energy Employment Shift”, which is an simple but effective visualisation of the growth in green energy, as part of the world’s transition to a sustainable future.
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