What is a green job? Broadly speaking, any work that contributes to ecological sustainable development is green work. According to the Earth Day Network of the international environmental protection organization, green jobs are not only renewable energy industries, but also green jobs in a broad sense, from working on organic farms to teaching in green schools. Therefore, green work in the future will be divided into two types: one is emerging industries related to energy, such as solar energy, wind power generation and carbon trading; The other is that the original blue-collar and white-collar workers turn to jobs similar to their previous jobs but related to environmental protection and turn to green collars.
The easiest way to step into the green field is to integrate your original skills into the category of green issues, and "green skills" will become the basic ability you must have in the future. Some people even say that before the surge of green economy, it is the easiest to be the first batch of green-collar people to succeed. For all workers, most of them should consciously turn themselves into green collars now, because "green skills" will be a basic ability that workers will have after information skills. Due to the change of green consumption consciousness and consumption habits, enterprises need all kinds of green talents. With the increasing investment in environmental protection and energy, some "green rich" will also rise.
The trend of global warming is difficult to reverse for the time being. Green work in energy can increase national energy security and reduce dependence on foreign energy, which is the foundation of the national economy, so green understanding will increase in the future. According to Business Weekly's report in the first issue of 2009 that "green collar is the new favorite in the future workplace", blue-collar workers and white-collar workers must have two abilities: interdisciplinary knowledge and environmental protection values. Therefore, in order to increase the competitiveness of the workplace, we must enrich our knowledge of environmental protection as soon as possible, improve our environmental literacy, and help ourselves to change a "green brain" so as not to be swept away by the unemployment tide in the economic crisis.
According to the data of the American Solar Energy Association, in 2030, there will be 1 green collar for every four workers in the United States. Acre Resources, a human resources company for environmental work in the UK, reported in 2008 that despite the general downturn in the industry, the labor market for environmental-related jobs in the UK has also increased significantly. The number of green leaders such as renewable energy and socially responsible investment has increased by 20%, while the number of carbon traders, analysts and project managers has tripled.
In the foreseeable future, promoting green work will become an important policy of all countries. Green work will be highly valued in every link of the enterprise. At present, 2 10 billion yuan of China's 4 trillion yuan economic stimulus plan is invested in environmental protection industry, and the green investment of local governments and people is also amazing. Therefore, China's green work will gradually become the mainstream like Europe and America.