How to Get Ready for a Green Job - By: CEES

The green jobs phenomenon has attracted attention of academia and policy makers after the
recent initiatives of United Nations Environment Program for the publication of the report on
"Green carbon world". These jobs help to protect ecosystems by reducing energy, materials,
and water consumption through high efficiency strategies. It also helps minimize all forms of
waste and pollution for sustainable development.

Sustainable development is a need of the hour as natural resources are increasingly vanishing.
The sustainable development may be achieved through 'green economy', which is a niche area
for growing new economic development model.

This model is dissimilar to the existing model of development that is based on fossil fuels, such
as coal, petroleum, and natural gas. The green economy aims at interdependence of human
economy and natural ecosystem by addressing the issues of global warming and environmental
degradation. Since the green economy is a new concept which requires enormous resources and
human capital by creating green jobs, ensuring real, sustainable economic growth, and
preventing environmental pollution, global warming, resource depletion, and environmental
degradation. Green jobs help to protect ecosystems and biodiversity; reduce energy, materials,
and water consumption through high efficiency strategies; de-carbonize the economy; and
minimize or altogether avoid generation of all forms of waste and pollution
Some developed economies have taken leading steps towards green jobs and technology and
developing country such as India and China are making efforts to go for green economy. Green
jobs include opportunities for managers, scientists and technicians particularly in informal
sectors where most: youth, women, farmers, rural populations and slum dwellers may be a major
player.

India has large potential of human capital so there is a big scope of green jobs. However, some
green jobs are also dangerous such as recycling and waste management, biomass energy and
construction. Recent developments in technology and the process of globalization along with
climate change issues have shifted the priority of global labour markets.
In developed economies the measures in this direction have been initiated but developing nations
have not yet taken the leap. The phenomenal growth rates achieved by some of the developing
countries like India and China has changed the carbon footprint of the world. In this context
keeping in mind the importance of sustainable development, these countries will require a radical
shift in developing new skills and qualifications which will offer great potential for the creation
of green jobs.

India has a large share of traditionally trained manpower (i.e. potters, rural artisans etc) which is
already in-line with the green skill domain; the remaining contemporary technical manpower has
to be transformed both at the level of skill as well as in the thought process. This will aid towards
building a greener economy.

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The College of Energy, Environment and Sustainability strives to expand knowledge of clean energy technology by providing green energy certifications through the online learning model while increasing the student competitiveness in the green jobs market. This Online learning experience by the College of Energy offers four different green job and career oriented green energy certifications, each of which focuses on a different aspect of clean energy technology and policy. For more information please Visit http://www.cees-edu.org/in/how-to-get-ready-for-green-job-ebook-edition-2.php

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