Green jobs: Offshore energy industries lay out plan for 'energy skills passports'

Cecilia Keating
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Green jobs: Offshore energy industries lay out plan for 'energy skills passports'

Passport project designed to help enable retraining and reskilling of oil and gas workers for clean energy roles

Energy industry leaders have come up with a plan for the creation of an "energy skills passport" that would help offshore workers transition from the oil and gas and take up roles in the clean energy sector....

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