Green Jobs Initiative

Any work that prevents, eliminates or reduces pollutants at the source such as air emissions, solid and hazardous waste, and/or liquid discharges.

Sample skills or tasks: Wastewater treatment, green infrastructure design, air emission reporting and sampling or point source emission reduction

Any work that is involved with reducing the amount of hazardous or non-hazardous waste generated as byproducts of a process. This involves reducing potential waste and eliminating existing waste.

Sample skills or tasks: Circularity design, sustainable packaging design, managing recycling programs or processing materials for reuse

Any work involved with progressing forward a clean and renewable energy generation future.

Sample skills or tasks: Solar field design, wind turbine maintenance, renewable energy plant operations or renewable energy certification

Any work involved in promoting electrification and energy efficiency of new and existing systems.

Sample skills or tasks: building optimization, EV installation, LEED certification, energy permitting, energy surveys or energy modeling and calculations

Any work focused on the extraction of pollutants or contaminants from water and soil.

Sample skills or tasks: environmental release estimation, sampling and monitoring or field investigation and inspection

Any work concerned with the upkeep and protection of existing areas in response to negative impacts of pollution.

Sample skills or tasks: aquifer replenishment, threatened and endangered species review, wetland assessments, vegetation and tree surveys, protected species habitat evaluation or and biodiversity management

Any work that focuses on educating the general public on topics of sustainability to apply to their own business practices or career paths.

Sample skills or tasks: environmental literacy programs, sustainable curriculum development or community program development

Any work focused on developing new products and services that uphold sustainability values or progress business sustainability agendas through R&D.

Sample skills or tasks: developing products to track ESG metrics, renewable energy research or EV battery research

Any work focused on the tracking of sustainability performance.

Sample skills or tasks :ESG reporting, GHG accounting, customer solutions for energy and water consumption reduction, or tracking and analyzing sustainability key performance indicators

Any work involved in the commitment of an organization or government to laws, regulations, or other policy measures concerning the environment.

Sample skills or tasks: ESG regulatory research and environmental bill proposal writing

Any work involved in sourcing sustainably or assisting suppliers in practices to adopt sustainable practices.

Sample skills or tasks: sustainable supply chain compliance, increasing supply chain resiliency or resource analysis of suppliers

Any work involved in the management of money and funding towards sustainability efforts.

Sample skills or tasks: impact investing, economic risk assessment of environmental related impacts, environmental insurance or pollution liability

Any work that aids in the development of sustainability frameworks within economic systems.

A broad category to capture remaining green skills.

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