1、Global Green Skills Report 20241Global Green Skills Report 2024Global Green Skills Report 2024Executive summaryExecutive summary2DefinitionsGreen skills are those that directly combat the effects of climate change.Green jobs are those that have sustainability at their core and cannot be performed wi
2、thout extensive knowledge of green skills.Green talent is a Linkedin member who has explicitly added at least one green skill to their profile and/or are working in a green job.The climate crisis is increasingly steering decision-making at the highest levels of government and business,yielding a cas
3、cading series of sustainability targets,commitments,and mandates.But data from LinkedIns more than one billion members reveals that the global workforce is not on track to realize these ambitions.We need to double the size of the green talent pool by 2050at a bare minimumto keep pace with projected
4、demand.1 Roughly half of jobs in the 2050 green economy will lack qualified candidates if we dont focus on strategic,expansive upskilling.This report illuminates global trends at the intersection of climate action and the workforce.We show how government policies are already shifting the supply and
5、demand for green skills,and recommend high-impact policies for growing the green talent pool.We spotlight two groups critical to the goal of doubling green talent:Gen Z,which desperately wants to be part of the climate solution but is struggling to break in,and women,who make up just a third of gree
6、n talent worldwide.We also delve into four industries where green skills development is particularly important to reaching climate targets:energy production&utilities,construction,manufacturing,and technology,information,&media.1 Comparing the growth trajectories of the share of job postings for gre