Green Skills

Engineering is vital to lots of green advancements, such as effective ways to use alternative fuels, developing renewable technology, or low-carbon transport. Engineering skills provide solutions that support us to adapt and be more sustainable. Examples of green skills in engineering roles include:

• Electrical engineering of rail networks and electric vehicles
• Civil engineers designing new underground heat networks to provide low carbon heating solutions.
• Mechanical engineering to design and analyse mechanical systems used in wind turbines, such as the blades, gearbox, generator, and tower.

Demands for green skills are popping up in a variety of different professional services that we know and recognise. As people and businesses look to be more sustainable, new green jobs are sprouting up in different industries. Examples include:

• Environmental Accountants supporting businesses to balance business needs with the environment.
• Environmental Lawyers providing advice on the potential environmental consequences of pursuing particular corporate activities.
• Consultants and project managers of many kinds that support environmental and sustainability ambitions across different
  industries.

As organisations transition to net-zero, demand for digital skills that support new ways of working are on the rise. Digital technology can help through new software solutions or capacity to monitor and evidence impacts and risks. Some examples of new digital roles include:

• Software developers that design programmes that can support retrofit building modelling
• Data analysts that monitor advanced climate data
• Cyber security across newly-digitalised energy systems