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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Nick Huber

Cleantech needs green skills: how to develop a workforce for a net zero world

A tutor teaches her class about renewable energy in an engineering workshop. They are all wearing protective eyewear and blue coveralls.
Apprenticeships can fill the skills gaps in green energy – and young people are keen to work in the sector. Photograph: SolStock/Getty Images

Around the world, governments and businesses have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, or earlier.

As well as helping to alleviate the effects of global heating, making the transition to a low-carbon economy could generate trillions of dollars in annual business value by creating a more sustainable economy and 395m jobs by 2030, according to estimates from the World Economic Forum.

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