Closing the Sustainability Skills Gap: Helping businesses move from pledges to progress
Microsoft
Publication Release Date: Nov. 2, 2022
Date Posted: Aug. 18, 2023
Submitted by: Julian Dautremont-Smith
Sustainability Topic:
Curriculum
Content Type:
Publications
Type: Published Report
Description
This report helps make the case for greater curricular integration of sustainability. Here are some key quotes:
- “We cannot address climate change at the scale and speed required without developing sustainability capacity and fluency in the global workforce. Current gaps in skills, organizational structure, and talent pipeline present some of the biggest obstacles to overcome.”
- “[C]ompanies and organizations are struggling to meet their [sustainability] goals. They consistently identify the lack of a trained workforce and inadequate strategies to develop sustainability skills and expertise as major barriers toward progress.”
- “The foundational changes needed across organizations will require sustainability fluency beyond individuals in sustainability-specialized roles. These basic competencies should broadly undergird any role-specific skills, even those jobs without sustainability in their title and without a primary sustainability focus.”
- “Strengthening sustainability education at the postsecondary level—from technical and vocational opportunities to Ph.D. research programs—is critical to ensuring that the workforce has foundational sustainability fluency and can attain specialized sustainability skills.”