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Green Collar Jobs: A progressive environmental & labour market approach for the UK?

 

Institute of Public Policy Research

UK

July, 2008

Institute of Public Policy Research

UK 

July, 2008

 

Only a few months ago Gordon Brown announced plans for a £100bn investment in renewable energy as part of a ‘green revolution' that could create hundreds of thousands of new ‘green-collar jobs'. His combined focus on the positive environmental and labour market effects of these plans might be relatively new in the UK, but is well-established in other European countries.

 

This seminar considered the opportunities for the UK to develop its own green-collar jobs strategy through learning from the German experience of proactively developing a strong ‘green' industrial policy and by opening up a debate among key stakeholders about the implications and options for the UK.

 

Speakers

Dr Hilmar Schneider, Director of Labour Policy, Institute for the Study of Labour

Jack Dromey, Deputy General Secretary, Unite

Neil Bentley, Director Business Environment, CBI

 

  • Green Collar Jobs Part 1 more

  • Green Collar Jobs Part 2 more

 
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