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The European Green Deal's main objective is to make Europe climate neutral by 2050, with a view to sustainable use and management of resources. This requires sustainable consumption and production, as well as the adoption of the circular economy to achieve climate neutrality of a product throughout its life cycle. In order to achieve this objective, it is necessary to exploit green technology, develop sustainable industry and sustainable transport and, of course, reduce pollution.
The Skills Year for Green and Digital Transition is another tool towards achieving a green transition with social justice, as it promotes the retraining and re-skilling of workers and allows new groups to enter or reintegrate. At the same time it helps to integrate environmental impact into all our activities and to ensure that our decisions and actions take into account the environmental consequences.
Furthermore, it reinforces existing knowledge to enable workers to respond to the forthcoming changes and the overall effort to tackle climate change and helps to disseminate good practices and successful examples from all European programmes.
Most importantly, it informs about the new jobs that are being created. European Commission's 2022 survey "Green Skills and Knowledge Concepts: labelling the ESCO* classification" (See HERE - page 5) recorded 571 concepts related to skills and knowledge labelled as green.
Hence, green can be a range of skills in various and diverse jobs related to manufacturing and construction, health, welfare, arts and humanities. In other words, green skills include all those skills that contribute to an awareness of environmental ethics, respect for environmental legislation and an understanding of environmental crime.
As the Office of the Environment Commissioner, we are particularly pleased to be involved in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security's National Action Plan for the European Year of Skills. The active participation of the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Education, the State Ministry of Research, the Office of the Environment Commissioner, ANAD and the Productivity Centre brings together all the partners involved, turns us into stakeholders in shaping training and information programmes and demonstrates in practice the implementation of the 17th Sustainable Development Goal that promotes cooperation.
The cooperation of all of us, in the light of each one's specialisation, is the yeast with which the programme for upgrading the skills of our country's human resources is shaped.
Ladies and gentlemen,
In this era of rapid technological development and social change, it is crucial to realise that environmental protection should not be treated as just another item on the agenda, but as an integral factor in our every action and decision. Integrating environmental impact into all our activities and ensuring that our decisions take account of environmental consequences is now a one-way street.
As part of this effort, the Environment Commissioner's Office is working to promote a sustainable and circular economy. This involves promoting the reduction of resource waste, promoting waste reduction, reuse and recycling, energy efficiency, supporting the development of green business initiatives and creating incentives for the adoption of environmentally friendly practices in both the private and public sectors.
Our goal is through this collaboration to foster and promote a shared sense of awareness and recognition of the value of the environment, as well as to strengthen By joining forces, we demonstrate that skills and environmental protection stem from the same source: from us and our choices.
(RM/MB/EHR)
*ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations) is the European multilingual classification of Skills, Competences and Occupations.
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