LinkedIn: Green skills failing to keep up with surging global demand

Stuart Stone
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LinkedIn calls for labour market transformation as study finds one in three UK role postings requires 'green' skills that just one in eight workers currently have

The world's workforce is ill-equipped to forge ahead with the transition to a sustainable, low carbon economy, despite booming global demand for green professionals, new research from LinkedIn has found,...

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