'Accelerate now': Why calls for green skills training are getting louder

Cecilia Keating
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The UK could face a 41-000-strong green energy workforce shortfall by 2030, according to a new report from PwC

PwC has become the latest influential voice to raise the alarm over a looming skills shortage that could significantly hamper the pace of the UK's clean energy transition, in a report this morning which...

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