Webinar overview:

This interactive webinar will explore the true scale of the skills challenge faced by the net zero transition and ask how businesses and policymakers can better address looming skills shortages that could undermine efforts to deliver on both the UK’s economic growth plans and its climate goals.

The session will bring together a panel of leading experts to discuss:

  • Current skills shortages within the green economy and how businesses are responding
  • How skills requirements are set to evolve as the net zero transition gathers pace, including sectors at risk of a looming skills crunch.
  • How reforms to education policy and practices could bolster the green skills base.
  • How retraining and upskilling is key to effective Just Transition strategies.
  • How to better promote green and net zero job opportunities.
  • Guidance on how to develop effective corporate green skills strategies that take in recruitment, training, re-skilling, and retention.
  • How businesses, policymakers, and educational institutions can work effectively together to tackle green skills challenges.

Panellists

James Murray
James Murray

Editor-in-chief, BusinessGreen

James Murray is Editor-in-Chief of BusinessGreen, having launched the site in October 2007. He is responsible for BusinessGreen's leading news, opinion and analysis, and also contributes to the brand's expanding events' programme. James is one of the UK's leading commentators on the low carbon economy. He writes occasionally for The Guardian newspaper and has also reported for BBC Radio on a number of green technology stories. James reports daily on a wide range of green business issues, with a particular focus on low carbon policy, economics and technology. In March 2011, James was voted number eight in the Press Gazette's list of the top 50 environmental journalists in the UK. Prior to launching BusinessGreen, James spent five years as a technology journalist working on a variety of IT titles.
Sarah Mukherjee
Sarah Mukherjee

CEO, Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP)

Polly Harrold
Polly Harrold

Senior Public Affairs and Public Policy, Santander UK

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