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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
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.

Matt Bloice
Matt Bloice

Head of Resourcing, Equans UK & Ireland

Matt Bloice, Head of Resourcing for Equans UK & Ireland, is a seasoned recruitment leader with over 15 years of experience in designing and delivering resourcing strategies and recruitment service transitions. He is dedicated to building talent pipelines that support the technical, energy, and sustainability sectors. Passionate about advancing the green skills revolution, Matt actively champions apprenticeship programs and diversity initiatives to develop a future-ready workforce aligned with the UK’s climate transition ambitions.
Katie Neck
Katie Neck

Managing Director & Founder, Sustained Futures

Katie is Founder and MD of Sustained Futures, committed to closing the green skills gap.

Her journey began in elite sport. While working in Formula 1, she witnessed a typhoon at the Japanese Grand Prix that shut down operations and exposed how vulnerable even the most advanced industries are to extreme weather. That moment set her on a new path. She went on to build McLaren’s first sustainability function. She later joined Capgemini Invent to consult across sectors.

But in every industry she noticed the same problem. Organisations lacked the green skills they needed to respond to climate change. In 2023 she launched Sustained Futures to close it. Since then the team has upskill more than 5,000 people around the world in partnership with the United Nations, Adobe, Arsenal FC, Dyson and Sail GP. Sustained Futures offers 90-day green skills maps and gaps analytics, upskilling pathways and for every employee upskilled, Sustained Futures upskills a young person for free.

Her leadership has earned her recognition as the 2024 Barclays Outstanding Entrepreneur and 2026 Earthshot Prize nomination. She has recently been appointed official Ambassador to Anthropic for the sustainability and climate change community. 

Martin Baxter
Martin Baxter

Deputy CEO, the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP)

Martin Baxter is Deputy CEO at the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP). He works in the UK and internationally to accelerate the transition to a sustainable future and support people in the development of sustainability skills and green careers. Martin has national and international experience in developing and negotiating global and European environmental management standards and developing capacity for effective and widespread implementation. Martin is a Board member of ISEP, and a non-exec director of the Society for the Environment (SocEnv) and the Broadway Initiative. He is a visiting professor at Cranfield University and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Derby.

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