Cover note: background to policy memo
This policy memo is written for Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, as a response to the Energy Security and Net Zero committee's inquiry into "Workforce planning to deliver clean, secure energy."
This inquiry comes as a step towards understanding how to build the workforce needed to fulfil Labour’s commitment of creating 650,000 new high-quality clean energy jobs as part of the UK's clean, secure energy mission: making Britain a clean energy superpower by 2030.
The objectives of the inquiry are to:
- explore the difficulties in recruiting and retraining the workforce to deliver a clean energy sector and retrofit homes and businesses;
- assess how the new Office for Clean Energy jobs can contribute to workforce planning; and
- gain an understanding of the specific role of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero in delivering clean energy jobs.
Definitions
- Green skills: The knowledge, abilities, values and attitudes needed to live in, develop and support a society which reduces the impact of human activity on the environment.
- Green job: Employment in an activity that contributes to protecting or restoring the environment, including those that mitigate or adapt to climate change.
- Clean energy sector: Mining, energy and water
- Clean energy job: Energy specific employment that directly contributes to - or indirectly supports - the achievement of the UK’s clean, secure energy mission.
Derived from: UK Parliament post. (2024). Green skills in education and employment. [source]
To: Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. CC: The Energy Security and Net Zero committee.
From: Jack Strachan on behalf of The Green Jobs Foundation
Call for evidence: Workforce planning to deliver clean, secure energy
Executive summary