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Knowledge and skills needed for managing resources and supporting efficiency.
Purpose Knowledge and skills needed for green economy
Manage natural resources • To assess environmental impact
• To design and adopt technologies that help in reducing the consumption of
natural resources
• To understand legislation and guidelines for sustainable utilisation of natural
resources
Support climate resilience • To develop models for interpreting climate change projections
• To develop risk management strategies for future resource availability
• To adopt technologies that improve resilience
Support resource efficiency • To develop resource efficient business models
• To develop and adopt technologies that maximises resource utilisation and
reduces waste
Support low carbon industry • To develop technologies that promote renewable energy sources (wind, solar,
and water)
• To design and adopt technologies and products that minimises carbon
emissions
Green Jobs
People possessing Green Skills are getting jobs in the fields of agriculture, manufacturing, Research and Development
(R&D), administrative, and service activities that are aimed at sustaining and protecting the environment. These jobs are
called Green Jobs. People with green jobs ensure that resources in an
economy are allocated in a fair and an equitable manner. These jobs Improve energy
and raw
help in: material
Support
• Ensuring judicious consumption of energy and raw materials. adaptation efficiency
Limit
• Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions especially that of carbon to the effects of greenhouse
dioxide. climate gas
• Minimising pollution at all levels. change Green Jobs emissions
• Putting in place proper waste management systems that minimise Help to
waste generation and contamination of the environment.
Protect and
• Protecting and restoring our ecosystems. restore Minimise waste and
• Positively impacting our country’s green economy. ecosystem pollution
• Producing eco-friendly goods or services.
Some of the sectors, which have the potential for green jobs are as
follows:
Sector Areas/ Field Green Jobs
Agriculture • Organic farming • Water quality technician
• Watershed management • Rain water harvesting professionals and
• Rain water harvesting technician
• Solar pump technician
• Greenhouse or polyhouse professionals
and technicians
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