Environmental Transition and Skills

Environmental transition, skills and the world of learning: it is perhaps by its absence that the subject of the skills required for the environmental transition shines. It's hard to find precise, recent, quantified studies on impacted, emerging and threatened jobs. When you do find them, the data is not up to date. Lack of communication? Lack of a common frame of reference? Difficulty in concretely defining the environmental transition and professions that are becoming “green”? Probably all of the above.

People talk about environmental transition, but where do they actually learn about it? When I started researching the subject, modestly typing into my favorite search engine (which is no longer Google) queries like “learning - environmental transition”, I was offered two types of action:

• Learning programs to “become the actor of my destiny”, to transform myself into an “entrepreneur of change”, to realize my potential as a “leader of tomorrow's world”. I've already got my destiny in my own hands, and I just want to understand why digital technology pollutes and what jobs will be affected by the measures in the Climate Act.
• Technical learning programs to become a wind turbine installer or forest ranger. At this stage, that's not my career plan.
• Companies that plant trees, buy carbon offsets, and for whom CSR means printing on both sides of the paper and not just front, claiming to be on the cutting edge.

All I wanted was to learn something concrete, simple and proven. See how to adapt my company to these challenges. Identify how to help our customers develop appropriate upskilling programs.

Finally, the Learn Assembly Papers team and I came up with something. We even found a lot of exciting, inspiring and useful stuff. And to save time, here's the Learn Assembly Papers special report on the impact of the environmental transition on skills.

Focus on:

• Digital sobriety: how can we rethink the way we use the Internet to reduce our impact on the environment?
• The 4 steps to include sustainable design practices in your learning program
• Corporate responsibility and environmental transition: how can they be reconciled?
• A MOOC to fight food waste
• The Climate Fresk, a success story
• Environmental transition: a lever for reducing unemployment?
• How to train for the environmental transition: overview of learning programs
• AXA Climate School: a learning program to accelerate sustainable transformation
• Companies and committed candidates: what are the recruitment challenges?
• Sustainable design, recycling, repair: under pressure professions

Enjoy your reading!