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Broadcast as part of BusinessGreen’s Workforce 2030 campaign, this interactive webinar will explore the policies, investments, and initiatives required to tackle the green skills gap and ensure the benefits from the net zero transition are widely shared. The webinar will bring together leading experts to explore the scale of current green skills shortages, the steps businesses and policymakers are currently taking to tackle skills gaps, and the measures that are likely to be required in the coming years to deliver a workforce that can enable the next phase of decarbonisation.
Topics to be covered include:
- The current state of the green skills base and jobs market
- Existing policies for strengthening green skills development
- Those areas facing the most severe green skills shortages
- Best practices for enhancing green skills development
- Potential policy interventions to boost the green skills base
Presenters
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.