LinkedIn: Green skills fail to keep up with surging global demand | Greenbiz

The world’s workforce is ill-equipped to forge ahead with the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy, despite booming global demand for green professionals, new research from LinkedIn has found. The professional networking platform’s 2023 Global Green Skills Report, published this week, revealed that while green job postings are up by 15.2 percent year-on-year, demand for talent is outstripping supply. Globally, green job postings grew nearly twice as fast as the share of green talent between 2022 and 2023, with “sustainability analyst,” “sustainability specialist” and “sustainability manager” among the 10 fastest-growing roles on LinkedIn between 2018 and 2022. Moreover, construction, utilities, oil and gas, and mining were found to be among Europe’s top industries for green roles, with LinkedIn also seeing a spike in in tech and finance professionals gaining green skills. However, just one in eight U.K. workers were found to be equipped with skills such as climate action planning, corporate sustainability and sustainable procurement, compared to one in seven workers in France and one in six in Germany. The shortfall in green skills was further underscored by the fact a third of advertised jobs in the U.K. now include some form of green skills. The findings chime with warnings from experts
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