This CSIRO report investigates the skills, innovation and workforce dimensions of the transition to a more environmentally sustainable society, with a particular focus on the challenges involved in achieving deep cuts in greenhouse emissions. (40 pages)
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Context: The need for a ‘sustainability transition’
3. The scale of the challenge
3.1 Scenarios explored in this report
3.2 Overall economic impacts
3.3 Projected employment outcomes
4. Skills and innovation review
5. Nature of the response required
5.1. Keys to achieving a high performance - low carbon economy
5.2. Suggestions for a green collar research agenda
6. Conclusions
Appendix
References
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Hatfield-Dodds S, Turner G, Schandl H and Doss T. 2008. Growing the green collar economy: Skills and labour challenges in reducing our greenhouse emissions and national environmental footprint. Report to the Dusseldorp Skills Forum, June 2008. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra.
CSIRO acknowledges funding support for this project from Dusseldorp Skills Forum.
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