Barometer
Green skills barometer
What does the green-skills ecosystem look like in different cities?
Green-skills ecosystem in cities = Environmental awareness + Leadership + Employee imperative
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Note: Barometer scores are normalised scores out of 100. The barometer scores are not intended to highlight that one pillar is more important than the other. The scores represent the relative importance of different drivers for each city. To explore differences at a city level, see the heat map in the city comparison section.
For the majority of respondents, green skills will become the most important skill for employees in their organisation in the next five years.
The increase in importance of green skills for executives is the highest (67 percentage points between today and five years from now), compared with other skills—digital, analytical, management and soft skills. All respondents belonging to the manufacturing, machinery and industrial and retail or wholesale trade sectors consider green skills to be most important in the next five years.
28.3%
Today, only 28.3% of the respondents consider green skills as most important.
95.7%
In five years’ time, 95.7% of business leads expect green skills to become significantly more important.
“Every skill needs to be a green skill”
Stefan Praschl, board member, competitions, WorldSkillsThe intensifying effects of climate change and an urgent need for a clean-energy transition make green-skills adoption essential. A higher share of executives from the energy, utilities and natural resources sector are prioritising green skills than other sectors, reinforcing the direct impacts of climate change on the sector.
81.7%
More than 80% of surveyed business leaders recognise the benefits of green skills in increasing resilience against extreme weather events.
85%
Eighty-five percent of respondents say that energy skills are much more important now compared with five years ago.
“C-suite commitment is critical to implement sustainability strategies in every organisation I worked with”,
Samantha Sharpe, research director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology SydneyGiven their crucial role in decision-making, greening the skills of leaders is important in establishing and communicating a clear green-skills roadmap in organisations.
Insights from the survey are aligned—the most selected job functions that would benefit the most from green skills development are senior members of an organisation.
When asked which two functions in their organisation would benefit the most from green-skills development,
86%
said senior executives.
56.7%
said C-suite executives.
A green edge: green skills for the future
Cities are the epicentre of the climate battle due to their large emissions. Achieving ambitious climate goals will depend on the capabilities and skills of the workforce in cities, who must equip themselves to remain relevant.
In this paper, a survey of 300 executives across six cities—Berlin, London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo—captures the perception of the green-skills environment in an urban context. Expert interviews and an extensive literature review supplemented the survey findings in developing this paper and the barometer.
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Explore the key findings from the research programme to understand the business leaders’ perception of the green-skills ecosystem across six cities.
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