Which green skills are missing, and how does the world fill the gap?
Now that the dust has settled on COP28 there’s a feeling that the politicians who finally hammered out a resolution all the countries involved could sign up to will be looking around with a sense of ‘Well, who’s going to make this happen then?’. Whether the semantics of making a transition to renewables rather than phasing out fossil fuels turns out to make any significant difference to how the net zero agenda plays out, the IET spoke up in UAE with events to highlight the results of an important new survey that identified an underappreciated obstacle. In August and September 2023, The IET commissioned independent research agency YouGov to quiz more than two thousand engineering employers from all over the world about their current priorities and challenges around climate change. The focus…