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GREEN SKILLS POLICIES, REPORTS AND INFORMATION

  • Green Skills Agreement. Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (2010-2013) This Agreement between the Australian Government and the state and territory governments seeks to build the capacity of the vocational education and training (VET) sector to deliver the skills for sustainability required in the workplace and to enable individuals, businesses and communities to adjust to and prosper in a sustainable, low-carbon economy. This will be achieved by:

    • embedding skills for sustainability practice and teaching in vocational education and training, within the requirements of the national regulatory framework
    • upskilling of VET Practitioners to deliver skills for sustainability
    • the strategic review of Training Packages (sets of nationally endorsed standards and qualifications for recognising and assessing people’s skills) to embed sustainability knowledge, skills and principles
    • implementing a transition strategy to re-skill vulnerable workers.
    http://www.deewr.gov.au/Skills/Programs/WorkDevelop/ClimateChangeSustainability/Pages/GreenSkillsAgreement.aspx

  • Who are the Green Collar Workers? Defining and identifying workers in sustainability and the environment 2009 - A report by Connection Research in conjunction with the Environment Institute of Australia & New Zealand and supported by the Dept of Environment and Climate Change NSW. Written by William Ehmcke (CEO), Graeme Philipson (Research Director), Camilla Kold Christensen (Research Manager) The report is available at http://connectionresearch.com.au/GCWT09.htm
  • Clean Sustainable Skills Package
    Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
    To start building green skills and jobs today, the Australian Government has announced a $94 million investment in 50 000 green jobs and training opportunities. This investment will help build a stronger, greener economy and ensure that young or disadvantaged Australians get the skills and training they will need for emerging green jobs and the jobs of tomorrow.
    For further information visit the Questions and Answers: Clean Sustainable Skills Package.
  • National VET Sector Sustainability Policy and Action Plan 2009-2012 Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
    The National VET Sector Sustainability Action Plan (NVSSAP) 2009-2012 was endorsed by the Ministerial Council for Vocational and Technical Education (MCVTE) on 12 June 2009. The purpose of the Policy and Action Plan is to provide a national framework for the VET sector to support the development of a productive workforce as industry, government, individuals and the wider community move to a sustainable economy. View the Policy and Action Plan:
    http://www.deewr.gov.au/Skills/ClimateChangeSustainability/Pages/
    NationalVETSectorSustainabilityActionPlan.aspx
  • Living Sustainably: the Australian Government's National Action Plan for Education for Sustainability National Council on Education for Sustainability by the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
    The aim of Living Sustainably: the Australian Government's National Action Plan for Education for Sustainability, launched in April 2009, is to equip all Australians with the knowledge and skills required to live sustainably. The plan has been prepared in conjunction with the National Council on Education for Sustainability by the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.
    View the Action Plan: http://www.environment.gov.au/education/nap/index.html
  • Victoria's Greenhouse Opportunity Set: New Growth Prospects in a Carbon Constrained World by The Allen Consulting Group, commissioned by the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development. An assessment of the commercial opportunities arising for Victoria as a result of climate change, and the ability of industry to capitalise on them. The report may be downloaded from http://www.business.vic.gov.au/busvicwr/_assets/main/lib60219/victoria's greenhouse opportunity set.pdf
  • Environmental sustainability: an industry response paper prepared by the eleven (11) Industry Skills Councils (ISCs) is a collective response, as well as individual responses from each ISC, produced as an E Zine, enabling you to read the report on-line. You can read create a PDF or print selected pages from the report http://www.isc.org.au/
  • Growing the Green Collar Economy: Skills and labour challenges in reducing our greenhouse emissions and national environmental footprint CSIRO / Dusseldorp (http://www.csiro.au/resources/GreenCollarReport.html)
  • Victoria – the Green Jobs State: Seizing the opportunities is published by Environment Victoria and is available at http://www.envict.org.au/file/file/Green%20Jobs%20Report%20-%20FINAL.pdf
  • Green Gold Rush Australian Conservation Foundation (http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res/Green_Gold_Rush_final.pdf)
  • The UNEP- ILO- IEO - ITUC Green Jobs Initiative
  • UNESCO Integrating Sustainable Development TVET Curriculum http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/apeid/Conference/
    11thConference/papers/5E3_Majumdar.pdf

 

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