Climate Change and your Career - upcoming online event
Climate Change and Your Career
How climate change will impact your career and what you can do about it
An event by COP26andbeyond and Earth Action Hub on 21st May 2021.
17.00-18.30 BST (find your timezone here)
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Green jobs are a make or break issue in the fight against climate change. This online workshop will discuss the future of green jobs and the implications of the Net Zero world for lifelong learning, as well as provide practical tips for those seeking a green career. The workshop will tackle key questions such as: What are green jobs? How can we ensure a just transition? If whole industries require transformation in a Net Zero world, how should we reskill? Is it possible to save the planet and thrive in our careers?
The event will be run by COP26andbeyond as part of Earth Action Hub’s 3 day event, hosted by Sam Wilson (COP26andbeyond) and Ross Baxter (decarbonisation consultant).
Speakers will include:
Sir Dieter Helm CBE
Ipek Gensçü
Ipek Gensçü is a Research Fellow in the Climate and Sustainable programme at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Since joining the New Climate Economy project and ODI in 2014, Ipek has managed and conducted research for the Annual Reports of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, which draw together evidence on economic benefits of climate-compatible development in energy, cities and land use. She has conducted research, and managed partnerships of work, on a range of topics including: sustainable infrastructure and finance, energy and fossil fuel subsidies, aviation and maritime transport, and land use (forests and agriculture).
Recommended reading: Migration and skills for the low-carbon transition (2020)
Olga Strietska-Ilina
Nick Kendrick
Nick Kendrick is Worker Ambassador of Iron and Earth and Technical Analyst and Education Specialist, with Greenplanet Energy Analytics.
Iron & Earth is a worker-led organisation whose mission is to empower fossil fuel industry and Indigenous workers to build and implement climate solutions. . Nick first partnered with Iron and Earth through his Masters capstone project, where he mapped out how to best deliver retraining workshops to Albertans facing layoffs.
Recommended reading: Workers Climate Plan (Iron and Earth, 2016)
Jacklyn Cock
Ajai Ahluwalia is an electrical engineer that specialises in UK offshore wind farms. He is currently one of the Technical Leads on the world’s largest offshore wind farm in development, Dogger Bank. Ajai is also is Vice Chair on the shadow board of RenewableUK and a Director of Lambeth Community Solar, a local renewable energy generation project.
Read our interview with Ajai: here
Sir Dieter Helm is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford. He was Independent Chair of the Natural Capital Committee, providing advice to the government on the sustainable use of natural capital, until the end of the second term of the Committee in November 2020. In the New Year 2021 Honours List, Dieter was awarded a knighthood for services to the environment, energy and utilities policy.
Recommended reading: Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change (2020)
Please note: Dieter Helm will provide a pre-recorded video
Olga Strietska-Ilina is a Senior Skills and Employability Specialist at the International Labour Organisation (ILO). She is a Team Leader of the work area Skills Strategies for Future Labour Markets, focusing on anticipating skills needs for the Future of Work, skills for trade and economic diversification, skills for environmental sustainability and climate action, and skills for technological change and digitalisation. Before 2008, Ms. Strietska-Ilina worked on skills forecasting for the European Centre for Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop).
Recommended reading: Skills for a Greener Future: A Global View (2019)
Professor Jacklyn Cock is Emeritus Professor in Sociology and Honorary Research Professor in SWOP, University of the Witwatersrand. Professor Cock has published widely on issues relating to gender, environmental and militarisation issues. Her works include Maids and Madams: A Study in the Politics of Exploitation; Going Green: People, Politics and the Environment (co-edited with Eddie Koch) ; Colonels and Cadres: War and Gender in South Africa; From Defence to Development: The Redirection of Military Resources in South Africa ; Rainbow Nations and Melting Pots: Conversations about Difference and Disadvantage (with A. Bernstein).
Recommended reading: The War Against Ourselves: Nature, Power and Justice (2008).
Sara Gavioli is a Master's Student in Comparative International Relations at Ca' Foscari University in Venice. She is actively involved in promoting green awareness in society through collaboration with the Istituto Analisi Relazioni Internazionali (IARI) and COP26 and beyond. Since 2019 she is a member of the University Quality Assurance Unit as well as a student representative in the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies. She is currently leading the foundation of the Ca' Foscari for SDGs association to promote student involvement in the achievement of the 2030 goals