DEMANDING CLIMATE JUSTICE
The Greener Jobs Alliance promotes skills training and job creation to grow low carbon sectors and green the whole economy.
Transition to a zero-carbon and resource-efficient economy drives sustainable economic recovery and job creation and makes existing jobs more secure. This requires a strategic national and local approach to deliver the skills needed and stimulate demand for clean energy and energy efficiency services.
The Greener Jobs Alliance liaises at a national and local level to build the broadest possible support for the policies, investment, partnerships and commitments needed to drive the transition to a low carbon economy because:
- Employers will not ‘green’ their operations without a clear national policy and incentives,
- Workers need job security which current policies don’t ensure
- Education providers will not support the development of new training programmes unless they can see a local demand for the courses offered
- Households and businesses will not be able to introduce low carbon options if there is a lack of skilled staff capable of doing the work
- The Greener Jobs Alliance works with training bodies, colleges, universities, employers, local and national government, trade unions, housing associations, campaign and community groups – to build the policies, investment and partnerships needed to drive the transition to a zero-carbon economy.
Supporting organisations include: UNITE, PCS, NEU, UCU, SOSUK, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Haldane Society of Socialist lawyers…
Blog & Debate

It’s money that has stopped nuclear power, not planning problems
Photo by Talsarnau TimesBy DAVID TOKE Of all the nonsense about nuclear power that one hears, the idea that somehow it is planning problems rather than financial issues that stop its development surely takes the biscuit. The Government bats away any formal planning...

What UK school leavers do – and do not – understand about the climate crisis; and why this is a problem
Photo by Callum Shaw on UnsplashThe conclusions of the December 2024 research report into climate literacy among school leavers in England makes worrying reading. The survey conclusions are republished below. My comments are in italics. Through asking a selected...

Chinese Whispers
By Paul Atkin The unilateral abandonment of responsibility for the future of humanity represented by Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, attempted sabotage of the US energy transition and international interventions to build a denialist international...

Kill your speed to save the climate: responding to the car’s role in the climate crisis
Image: Parked Cars by Image by Thomas from PixabayProducing 27% of the UK’s carbon emissions, the transport sector has a huge contribution to make in achieving our Net Zero and 1.5o targets. Here Daniel Scharf presents the case for how our approach to the private...
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