With millions of green jobs expected to be created within the next 10 years, global leaders are championing the cause to make the industry more inclusive.
Only just a few months after being passed, the Inflation Reduction Act is already making waves in the sustainability industry. Dozens of businesses are already well on their way to receiving funding, investment, and support that will soon lead them to create scores of the millions of jobs expected to come on stream by 2030.
The Act has received international commendation for helping to bring the USA that much closer to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, making the world a more environmentally-friendly place and the country a leader in this effort.
But there’s another major point of potential on the verge of being realized with these developments: a more inclusive, diverse industry that could help to balance economic scales for visible minorities in the United States.
Clean Energy Jobs Can Pave the Way for Diversity
Right now, despite the massive potential for more jobs in the sustainability space, there is actually a shortage of skilled workers. This has driven some businesses to be more flexible with hiring practices, even being more willing to offer apprenticeships or opportunities to people without hands-on experience.
This, in turn, makes it the perfect labor market for visible minorities like women, African-Americans, people with disabilities, and more to enter a lucrative industry that has typically excluded them.
Of course, the green economy and its related careers are still developing and expanding even now. The sector has really only experienced intense, rapid growth over the last several years. Nonetheless, the field has been noticeably deficient in diversity up until this point.
All of that could change if green businesses make more of an effort to be inclusive in their hiring practices, and if more diverse workers seize the moment to launch their careers in clean/renewable energy, sustainability management, environmental law, and the whole host of green jobs that await them in this current market.
Minority Workers Need Support to Join the Green Economy
Making a career for yourself in a field traditionally dominated by the majority can be admittedly challenging for visible minorities. For this very reason, groups like the World Bank and Word In Black, an African-American media collaboration movement, have spoken out about the need for more support in helping the green economy to be more diverse.
By making it easy and accessible to find the best sustainable jobs spanning a wide range of positions, EcoCareers hopes to help encourage minority groups to join the sector.
Rather than being shut out of conversations, networking, and other opportunities to land highly-skilled, high-paying jobs that will have a positive impact on the environment, and therefore make a meaningful difference in the world, jobseekers can take advantage of resource sites like EcoCareers to get themselves in the game and that much closer to their dream green job.
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