Defining Green Jobs

[Chandra Kishore]

At IEN, we are often asked, what is a green job and what job skills need to be acquired for these kind of jobs. Let me encourage each of you in different industry to come forward and just answer two questions?

1. What type of Green work you are doing and in which sector?

2. What job skills you think is needed to be really successful in what you are doing including technical, management, administrative and computer skills?

Please take a moment of time and come forward to share, so we can work together to acquire the right professional skills necessary to save our mother earth.

To get you started here is a link to the UNEP insight to Green Jobs. Check it here .

But don't get distracted by it. We need to hear your story.

[Amlan Dutta]

Very Good post,, Can I share this in my Facebook Group : Env Jobs : Bull Board (A broad spectrum Bulletin Board for Green Jobs)

[Chandra Kishore]

Certainly. Do provide a link back to this post.

Amlan Dutta said:

Very Good post,, Can I share this in my Facebook Group : Env Jobs : Bull Board (A broad spectrum Bulletin Board for Green Jobs)

[Dr K. Harish Kumar]

Can i mail u regarding dis

[Dr Shailendra Tripathi]

Dear Mr Dutta,

Could you please share some of the useful websites for Environmental jobs

[Chandra Kishore]

Certainly. Email  at [e-mail]

Dr K. Harish Kumar said:

Can i mail u regarding dis

[BIJAN KUMAR MISHRA]

Dear Kishore.............An interesting dialogue initiated by you probably catch eye for all. My experience in the Industry and GoI goes back to 1988 when we started our career as a research scholar. Forget about green job people were asking what do you mean by doing work for environmental management? Forget it... .

Slowly the transformation started in understanding the need of an environmental professional in Industries. The job done now a days by an environmental professional is bridging the understanding and implementation of legislative requirements, stepping a further advocating for better, efficient and low carbon technology, compliance by 99.9%.

Probably India understands  and interprets the green job now this a way which is being done by an environmental professional. Aside, all the people who are working for the development for nation, every one of them is a green manager and they should innovate, include and intervene in changing the environmental aspects to economics and probably the entire nation shall work as a Green Force.      

[Bhavani Prakash]

It's easy to get distracted by such a big document!! :) It makes for great reading though! Thanks for sharing this, Chandra. It's a question that we constantly ask too, as we are now recruiting in the environmental/sustainability sectors with a focus area on Singapore via www.greencollarasia.com 

The ILO/UNEP definitions are good starting points, generally referring to those jobs which have a positive impact on the environment.  These can be created afresh as new industries or may arise within traditional industries. 

The IEMA Job Skills Map provides a good summary here to answer your question on skills http://www.greencollarasia.com/2011/11/04/green-jobs-skills-map/