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Plans for Clean Growth
Emission sectors
• Electricity & Heat Generation
• Transport
• Residential Buildings
• Industry & Business
• Agriculture
• Land Use, Land Change & Forestry
• Waste Management
• Public sector
Skills System
• To be flexible to meet these needs of
SME’s and learners
• Short courses be offered, not always 2-
year courses
• Work closely with further education, to
see what can be done to allow that
flexibility
Young People
• Future of the labour market (30% of the
labour market by 2030 will be generation
Z)
• People, Influencers and advice to
motivate them towards these skills
• Do they know what opportunities are
available to them?
• Is the careers advice available?
• Employers be more heavily involved with
schools
• There is good practice out there, this
needs to become mainstream
• Harness and build upon young people's
environmental awareness
Partnership approach
This can't be done alone, need help from:
Industry, Careers Wales, collages, education
heads etc
Just Transition
• Making sure no one is left behind, where
job roles cease to become viable, a clear
plan for reskilling and upskilling into
other roles is required
• Ensuring we have that diverse workforce
• Ensuring mainstream equality into the
Net Zero Transition
• Some sectors have ageing workforce and
skills are being lost, how can we retain
these skills?
Each Emissions sector does not sit alone, a full
understanding of the sectors is required across
Wales. E.g. Businesses would not only have to
think about their premises and products but
also heat generation, Transportation, waste,
supply chain, recycling etc.
Skilled Workforce
• All Jobs will change, some jobs will be
lost, and new ones created
• Need to upskill and reskill to make sure
competence and to mitigate job losses
• Identify key roles that require new skills
• SME’s need help with technology or
Infrastructure and supply chain
understanding etc
• Apprenticeships, Can net zero skills be
appended to current programmes?
• Journey to competence- Set out different
pathways for occupations
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