How countries are embracing green skills

- Governments around the world are faced with a dilemma: how to foster economic growth and create opportunity yet reduce carbon emissions and meet climate goals. To help navigate the green transition, LinkedIn is providing policy makers and business leaders with actionable insights. To do this, we use our Green Skills Intensity Index. Green Skills Intensity is a metric to understand how workers in different countries are applying green skills. It's a great way to spot trends, fill skills gaps, and foster green jobs. Let's take some examples from around the globe. The United States is the country with the highest green skills intensity, even though it is the second highest emitter of carbon emissions, it is also the world leader in green skills application. In just the last five years, the number of renewables and environment jobs in the US has more than traveled. If this trend continues, jobs in the renewables and environment sector will out number oil and gas jobs on our platform by 2023. This shift to green talent is being driven by a younger generation, Generation Z, which spans its ages 10 to 21, has the opportunity to start a career in a green job on day one. In fact, hiring of new graduates with 0.6 times higher in renewables and environment than in oil and gas. Greener ways of living are driving radical change. Speaking of driving, Europe's automotive industry is being reshaped by the move to electric vehicles in a sector responsible for around one in every nine manufacturing jobs there, this has created more demand for green skills. In just the past five years, green talent has increased over 11% each year placing automotive among the highest growth rates of any manufacturing sector. This will create new job opportunities as electric vehicles now span manufacturing, software, research and development, and so on. Agriculture's another sector undergoing green innovation, especially in Asia Pacific. Countries like Australia, New Zealand, India, and Singapore are increasing their share of green talent each year. Sustainable agricultural skills have been growing 12% annually, especially across farming, dairy, and ranching. This is encouraging growth in a sector which is estimated to represent over 20% of total emissions globally. So as you can see, countries can reduce emissions while creating job opportunities in the green transition. What I'm most excited about is how countries can actually learn from each other to innovate. Because after all, we are tied by a common objective, to leave the earth better than we found it.