Learning & skills
Green skills split into two overlapping groups. One is concerned with navigating complexity and imagining alternatives. The other delivers that change. We need both.
Transformative skills
Like collaboration, communication, creativity and critical thinking. They enable business resilience and innovation in the face of uncertainty.
Instrumental skills
The kind of technical skills which deliver material change in many forms like transport, energy, construction or digital solutions.
Green skills in education and employment, UK Parliament POST, 18 January 2024, p.3
There’s a tendency to see someone who is communicative, imaginative and collaborative as talented rather than skilled, and to see this as a hiring challenge rather than a learning one. It’s not. We need to ensure that these skills are replicable and scalable.
Our climate action curriculum draws on leading skills frameworks: the European sustainability competence framework GreenComp, the essential skills universal framework Skills Builder and Edge Foundation signature practices of deeper learning: Project-Based Learning, Real World Learning and Community Connected Learning.
