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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
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.
Polly Harrold
Senior Public Affairs and Public Policy, Santander UK
Polly Harrold is a Senior Public Affairs and Public Policy manager at Santander UK who specialises in sustainability.
While at Santander UK, Polly has led on the publication of several reports, notably the Tomorrow’s Homes and Tomorrow’s Skills report.
Before joining Santander UK, Polly worked in multiple Government departments, including the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Cabinet Office.
While at Santander UK, Polly has led on the publication of several reports, notably the Tomorrow’s Homes and Tomorrow’s Skills report.
Before joining Santander UK, Polly worked in multiple Government departments, including the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Cabinet Office.
Sarah Mukherjee
CEO, Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP)
Thomas Vergunst
Programme Director, Finance Sector Education, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
Thomas leads CISL’s executive education for financial institutions. Working closely with client organisations he designs and delivers customised sustainability leadership programmes for current and future leaders. These programmes help organisations understand and respond strategically to rapidly evolving social and environmental risks and opportunities, while also encouraging them to play a more active role in driving wider systemic change.
As the course convenor for one of CISL’s self-paced online courses, Sustainable Finance Foundations for Banking, Investment and Insurance, Thomas has also helped to bring the topic of sustainability to a much wider audience within financial institutions. The eight to ten-hour course provides a solid introductory foundation on key sustainable finance and ESG themes, across six core modules.
Thomas recently led CISL’s work with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) to support its strategy to scale market capacity on identifying, managing and responding to nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities. Working with the TNFD he led a small team to produce a range of ‘white labelled’ education materials that can be used by training providers and market participants, to build capabilities across both corporates and financial institutions.
Since completing his MSc in Soil Science in 2006, Thomas has held multiple roles in the sustainability sector. Prior to joining CISL Thomas worked for Eunomia Research & Consulting where he focused on, among other things, UK and European waste and resource policy. In this role, he managed numerous projects for private and public sector clients, including Eunomia’s strategic work on the European Commission’s circular economy package. Over recent years, his work has focused on the interconnected links between finance, policy and business strategies that can be used to encourage a shift towards a more sustainable economy.
Thomas has run programmes with numerous financial institutions including BNP Paribas, CIMB, DBS, Fidelidade, Lloyds Bank, Natwest, Investec, Liontrust, Phoenix Group, Cambridge University Endowment Fund and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Thomas sits on CISL’s Foresight Working Group and works closely with CISL’s Centre for Sustainable Finance.
As the course convenor for one of CISL’s self-paced online courses, Sustainable Finance Foundations for Banking, Investment and Insurance, Thomas has also helped to bring the topic of sustainability to a much wider audience within financial institutions. The eight to ten-hour course provides a solid introductory foundation on key sustainable finance and ESG themes, across six core modules.
Thomas recently led CISL’s work with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) to support its strategy to scale market capacity on identifying, managing and responding to nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities. Working with the TNFD he led a small team to produce a range of ‘white labelled’ education materials that can be used by training providers and market participants, to build capabilities across both corporates and financial institutions.
Since completing his MSc in Soil Science in 2006, Thomas has held multiple roles in the sustainability sector. Prior to joining CISL Thomas worked for Eunomia Research & Consulting where he focused on, among other things, UK and European waste and resource policy. In this role, he managed numerous projects for private and public sector clients, including Eunomia’s strategic work on the European Commission’s circular economy package. Over recent years, his work has focused on the interconnected links between finance, policy and business strategies that can be used to encourage a shift towards a more sustainable economy.
Thomas has run programmes with numerous financial institutions including BNP Paribas, CIMB, DBS, Fidelidade, Lloyds Bank, Natwest, Investec, Liontrust, Phoenix Group, Cambridge University Endowment Fund and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Thomas sits on CISL’s Foresight Working Group and works closely with CISL’s Centre for Sustainable Finance.
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