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Skill Development for Green Economy
The key challenges for India are to expand access to food, energy, water, and other essential goods and services
to its growing population. It needs to work towards the objective of alleviating poverty and catalysing sustainable
development. The development of skills for green jobs is crucial to ensuring an efficient transition from unsustainable
to a green economy by matching supply and demand for skills. A green job can be found in business, non-profit
organisations, government, or education.
Some green jobs may have specific requirements for green skills, such as an organic farmer needs to have knowledge
and skills for growing organically certified crops. Solar technicians or engineers should possess the knowledge and
skills for design, installation and maintenance of solar panels and appliances. Other green jobs may not necessarily
require specific skills. For example, a graphic designer or a cashier working for a green company or organisation
will be contributing to the development of green growth and economy.
Components of Green Economy
There are six basic components of a Green Economy:
• Renewable Energy: Energy produced by renewable sources like wind, sun, water, etc. is called renewable energy.
Using these as the alternate sources of energy will help reduce the impact on the environment.
• Green Buildings: Buildings which causes minimum destruction to the environment during its construction and
use renewable energy with proper waste management are called green buildings.
• Green Transport: It supports a well-planned transportation system with minimum damage to the forest and
environment. It also promotes efficient use of fuel that produces minimum greenhouse gases and also uses
alternate sources of fuel like CNG, battery, etc.
• Water Management: It is to reduce the wastage of water and replenish the groundwater level by adopting
rainwater harvesting. Using rainwater for agriculture, wastewater for recycling, etc. reduce scarcity of water.
• Waste Management: It is managing the waste by adopting 5R's—Repurpose, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse and
Recycle for minimum environmental degradation.
• Land Management: It is judicious use of land resources like soil, forests, farms, roads, etc. without causing
much damage to the environment.
Importance of Green Economy
The Green Economy is an innovative method of improving the country’s economy with minimum environmental
degradation. Its major benefits are:
Environmental Benefits
Environmental benefits of green economy are:
• It helps in decreasing environmental pollution, which is a big effort to protect the environment without degrading
the quality of soil, water and air.
• It helps in reducing the negative impacts of greenhouse gases by adopting technologies and products that
minimise carbon emissions. This will work in reducing global warming.
• Less damage to our forests and biodiversity will help in survival of rare species on the earth.
• It helps in eco-friendly, sustainable management of natural resources.
• It brings conscious inclination towards the alternate sources of energy.
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