SKILLS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT技能与可持续发展

What are sustainable skills?
• Skills may just that – specific skills needed for example to advise, purchase and install renewables.
• See Pro Environ – LCREE skills paper for e.gs and SW/O Research Brief.
• Over 25% of groundwater bodies in England is at risk from over abstraction.
• Over 50% of UK water consumption is in the home – third flushed down the toilet.
Sustainable Skills
• Some SDC suggested skills for all learners: • Understanding evidence/impacts • Systems thinking • Understanding change • Thinking locally and globally • Critical thinking • Understanding risk and precautionary principle
Resource inefficiency
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• Do not be distracted by the myth that ‘every little helps’ If everyone does a little we will only achieve a little.
• David JC MacKay – Sustainable Energy without the hot air.
• GHG emissions over the period 2019 to 2019 fell at an annual average rate under 1%.
• Going forward a step change will be required to achieve deep emissions cuts required through the first three carbon budget periods and beyond:
• Little way to go – their Ambition 2020 World Class Skills report not mention it.
Every BIG helps
• To achieve our goal of getting off fossil fuels reductions in demand and increases in supply must be big.
SKILLS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
THE CHALLENGE TESS GILL
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
THE EXTENT OF THE CHALLENGE
• Climate Change Committee –October Report:
• Roll-out Smarter Choices to encourage better journey planning and increased use of public transport across the UK and training drivers in eco-driving.
SOME OF THE ACTION NEEDED
• Make a major shift in the strategy on residential home energy efficiency, moving away from the existing supplier obligation, to a transformation of our residential building stock through a whole house and street by street approach, with advice, encouragement, financing and funding available for households to incentivise major energy efficiency improvements.
leadership and management skills to drive culture change or overhaul business practices; • Sustainable procurement, environmental and risk management, monitoring; • Energy, resource efficiency, product life cycle, carbon auditing and trading.
SO WE NEED HIGH AMBITION AND DELIVERY
• “We have a terrible record of leading the world on rhetoric and failing to deliver in our own backyard” – Jonathan Porritt on climate change.
• Need to also increase resource efficiency and protect bio-diversity
• Principles of sustainable development set out principles
Five new principles
We want to achieve our goals of living within environmental limits and a just society, and we will do it by means of a sustainable economy, good governance, and sound science.
learning and ideas; • Public sector procurement important
Delivery – Aldersgate Group
• All policies e.g. subsidies for wind or LC Regions have corresponding skills strategies;
• Hot water use in homes accounts for 5% of total GHG emissions
• Leakages from petrol stations contribute to water pollution in groundwater.
Delivery -Roundtable
Current Hale Waihona Puke kill e.g. plumbing
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Output Water efficiency
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SD/LCREE input Plumbing +
with associated skills
sets
E.G Resource efficiency - Water
• Almost a quarter of public water supply is lost through leakage.
• All sectors of economy need development of skills on generic issues.
• Bin classification of green jobs. • Requirement on all employers to provide
skills training in sustainability?
• Action required by Government, employers and providers;
• Learner and trade union involvement key; • Resource efficiency better approach than
low carbon; • Supply chains can be used to spread
Transport Plans
• 25% emissions reduction on 2019 levels by 2020:
• Falling carbon intensity of new cars to 95 g/kmin 2020 from158g/km.
• 240 thousand electric cars and plug-in hybrids by 2019, and 1.7 million by 2020, supported by appropriate charging infrastructure.
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BEYOND CLIMATE CHANGE
• Climate change one result from living beyond the world’s resources.
• But there are also far more generic skills/capacities/awareness to initiate, progress and manage change ….
LCIS and skills
• Core skills – STEM • More general skills – communication,
• Sustainable emissions reductions in the UK through implementation of measures to improve carbon efficiency have been very low and largely due to the recession
No wider output In work or community
Current skill e.g plumbing
LCREE output More water efficiency
Skill input LCREE plumbing
Advises clients on Range of measures Active in community
• “Fixation of producing endless policy documents and total lack of interest in delivery”
Government to lead
• Government to take co-ordinated approach to making low carbon sustainable skills major focus of skills delivery.
• Need UK Commission for Employment and Skills to lead.