The reports, Mapping Green Career Pathways: Job Training Opportunities and Infrastructure, recommend strengthening existing training infrastructures to build workers’ skills to fill green-collar jobs that are being created in construction and manufacturing, sectors which are projected to account for 55 percent of all new jobs in the emerging renewable energy and efficiency industries.
Mapping Green Career Pathways identifies existing training programs that represent key elements of an integrated green workforce development system. According to the reports, many of the elements of a green training infrastructure already exist in each state, but there are still gaps along the green career pathway that must be filled through stronger, more integrated training programs. To meet the growing demand for workers in the clean energy economy, Mapping Green Career Pathways proposes a series of policy recommendations that include:
- Filling in gaps between existing training offerings through investments in programs such as high school career technical education and pre-apprenticeship training, rather than investing in new and sometimes unnecessary programs.
- Breaking down silos and better integrating environmental, economic and workforce goals at the federal, state and local levels, so that investments in new training programs are driven by actual job growth.
- Conditioning federal, state and local training grants and department of development funds on interagency collaboration, and prioritizing partnerships between training providers, unions, employers and Workforce Investment Boards.
- Investing in career pathway models that emphasize flexibility so workers can easily move in and out of classroom-based training and employment.
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