Skills articles

"No possibility" of UK meeting emissions targets without huge energy efficiency push

Apprentice at Centrica Energy Academy

Engineers warn skills shortages may undermine efforts to cut impact of built environment

12 Jan 2012

E.ON forges low carbon alliance with Birmingham universities

Grid infrastructure

Partnerships with Aston and Birmingham City Universities to drive investment in green research

11 Jan 2012

Hawaii launches web directory of green employers

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New online tool to help job seekers tap into booming green jobs market

05 Jan 2012

Industry bags £1.4m to build Green Deal skills

Training should help firms secure the 100,000 retrofitting jobs expected to be created by the flagship energy efficiency scheme

05 Dec 2011

Climate targets require 'one building retrofitted every minute'

Energy Saving Trust research highlights scale of challenge for UK's built environment

05 Dec 2011

GreenBiz salary survey finds execs get bigger budgets and more staff

Major new US survey reveals rising salaries and influence for green executives

15 Nov 2011

Liverpool scores big with new green training centre

Community college courses on installing a range of renewable technologies to start this week

15 Nov 2011

Government launches £1m clean energy skills drive

Vince Cable announces new funds to support renewables and nuclear skills development

07 Oct 2011

Report: oil and gas skills to cut offshore wind costs by a fifth

Scottish Enterprise argues that fossil fuel industry expertise could bolster the nascent renewable energy sector

26 Sep 2011

Deep cuts to feed-in tariff would put 10,000 jobs at risk

Study claims incentives have generated £65m surplus for the Treasury at a cost of just £2 on consumer energy bills

22 Sep 2011

Updated: Fife wind farm hails green apprenticeship "first"

Carbon Free secures planning permission for Earlseat wind farm that plans to generate £2m in community benefits

21 Sep 2011

Scotland and TUC tout green jobs boost

Government and industry seek to place green growth at heart of economic recovery

12 Sep 2011

Renewable energy skills get £6.5m boost

Government launches Doctorate Centre in Offshore Renewable Energy to train new generation of engineering leaders

31 Aug 2011

Breaking out of the Muesli Belt

Trewin Restorick argues that the environmental movement must do more to support disadvantaged sections of society

31 Aug 2011

Early bird offer on Green Business Checklist lectures soon to end

Special offer on tickets for next two BusinessGreen lecture evenings runs out in a week's time

24 Aug 2011

BusinessGreen Leaders Forum

Half-day event to provide UK's top sustainability leaders with invaluable opportunity to track and shape latest green business trends

23 Aug 2011

Speaker line up confirmed for first Green Business Checklist lecture

Just two weeks left to take advantage of Early Bird offer for autumn lecture series

17 Aug 2011

Vattenfall slots final REpower wind turbine into place at Ormonde

Offshore wind sector moves to close looming skills gap as Technip joins Iberdrola's French bidding consortium

02 Aug 2011

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