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Could the CRC have a positive impact?

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Guest post by Bethany Cox, Marketing Manager at Acre; climate change recruitment specialists and co-founding organisation of the CRC Network

As I’m sure the members of Renewable Energy Jobs are well aware, the Government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment legislation comes into full effect in April 2010. Many of you may be involved in you’re the measurement of your organisation’s carbon emissions and actions to reduce these emissions to minimise the impact of the CRC financially and from a brand perspective. (more…)

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Are we facing a green skills shortage?

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

The latest energy and climate change white paper from the UK government pushes a green energy revolution which would see 40% of the UK’s energy generated from renewable energy sources by 2020, creating 1.2m new green jobs. (more…)

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The first Global Carbon Salary Survey

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

This month Acre Resources, Acona and Thomson Reuters published the first Global Carbon Salary Survey with interesting results. The Carbon Salary Survey came about as a natural follow on from the CSR Salary Survey that we have been undertaking for the past two years*. The idea behind the survey gathered pace once we realised that no research into climate change and carbon salaries on a global scale had taken place before. Obviously we needed a global media partner which is where Thompson Reuters came in. Partnering with them enabled the survey to be promoted across their Global Carbon Community which, given the nature of the survey, was an excellent way to promote and gain respondents for the study. (more…)

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The rise and rise of green jobs

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

The phrase ‘green jobs’ is one that I have been careful to avoid over the past years. I always believed that it’s connotations were most closely aligned to activists and lobbying and wouldn’t wash with many of our commercial clients. However things have changed over the last 12 months and the green word is becoming accepted across the business world – as such we are learning to embrace the term.

It is now clear that the huge range of political, cultural and commercial drivers for the energy efficiency sector will lead to ‘green jobs’ taking up a much bigger proportion of the UK workforce. Much less clear is the definition of ‘green jobs’, and many seem confused about what the future of a ‘green collar’ workforce really looks like. (more…)

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