Green Growth: Implications for Skills Development in TVET for Sustainable Development John Fien RMIT University, Australia ADB - SKILLS FOR INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN DEVELOPING ASIA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATIVE FORUM 12-13 DECEMBER 2011
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ADB - SKILLS FOR INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN DEVELOPING ASIA-PACIFICINTERNATIONAL CONSULTATIVE FORUM 12-13 DECEMBER 2011
Climate change will driveeconomic change
Action on climate change will create
significant business opportunities as new
markets are created in low-carbon energytechnologies and other low-carbon goodsand services. These markets could growto be worth hundreds of billions of dollars
each year, and employment in these willexpand accordingly.
Skills to build and retrofit energy efficientbuildings (EEB)
A need - and an opportunity …….
•45% of all present carbon emissions come fromexisting buildings, with 27% from homes
•87% of existing buildings will still be here in 2050
Skills for sustainable building must not be aspecialism but a core part of every building relatedcompetency - from school based learning, throughvocational college courses, to CPD.
ADB - SKILLS FOR INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN DEVELOPING ASIA-PACIFICINTERNATIONAL CONSULTATIVE FORUM 12-13 DECEMBER 2011
propose so u on Regional project on skills development for green jobs
Three aims
1. To develop knowledge about how the skills needed
for employability in a low-carbon economy can beidentified and developed in each country
2. To promote collaboration between industry and VETsystems to identify implications for green skills
3. To develop and pilot a professional developmentframework through which the skills for a greeneconomy among VET policy makers, managers andeducators can be enhanced
propose so u on Regional project on skills development for green jobs
Project steps1. Analyse industry data to identify carbon-vulnerable
industries in each country as well as where newopportunities from climate change are emerging.
2. Identify (i) the occupations where new orreengineered jobs are being created (or need to becreated) to meet the opportunities emerging in alow-carbonfuture; and (ii) the low-carbon and
generic competencies required of employees inthese positions and industries.
3. Discover approaches to professional developmentwithin cultural and VET contexts and adaptation ofthe approach to suit these contexts.