What green jobs and skills are in demand?

- Sustainability manager, wind turbine technician, solar consultant, ecologist, environmental health and safety specialist, roles that barely existed just a decade ago, today they are the five fastest growing green jobs globally. What might surprise you is that the fastest growing greening jobs are in less-specialized sectors. Greening jobs are those that typically require some level of green skills and where we're seeing a higher level of green skills being applied. Examples include compliance manager, facilities manager, and sales representative. This proves the breadth and scale of the green transition and the thirst for greener and greener skills. To remind you, green skills are those that enable the environmental sustainability of economic activities. The fastest growing green skills are showing up in both sectors we traditionally consider green and also ones we haven't historically thought of as green, areas like fashion, like finance. Let's take fashion, a sector thousands of years old, and see how it's adapting. The number one fastest growing green skill today is sustainable fashion. Even traditional fashion roles, such as designer, stylist, and merchandiser, are increasingly applying sustainable fashion skills and they continue to evolve and grow. The share of green talent in design hubs in Europe and the U.S. has grown in the last five years by 4% and 6% respectively. And fashion is becoming greener not only in terms of design but also manufacturing. This can be seen particularly in Asia where manufacturing hubs have grown green talent by almost 6% in the same period. From looking at how clothes designed and sourced, how they're manufactured, and even reused, fashion is a sector that's taking the green transition purposefully. If an industry thousands of years old can embrace green skills and jobs, there's hope that every industry can do the same.