With the exception of specific technical roles and some growth in new industries, the transition to net zero will have implications for jobs at all skill levels and across all occupational groups as existing sectors change and decarbonise.
It is therefore likely that for the majority of roles, skills demand could be about change in existing skillsets rather than uniquely new skill areas.
Skills system and provision able to respond to challenges of maintaining the productive performance of the region’s economy as it decarbonises, in anticipating and responding to change and disruption to labour markets and in responding and mitigating change through investment to support people to move into sustainable, resilient jobs in a progressively net zero region.