The session will focus on skills in the building sector from various perspectives and will address current challenges and concrete approaches for positive impact.
Transforming the building sector poses many complex challenges, particularly around developing a trained workforce. For green jobs in the building sector to be attractive, especially among young, robust policies are necessary to improve worker protections and conditions, address skill shortage challenges, and be inclusive of marginalised communities. Policymakers must address the current skills shortage gap by investing in inclusive policies, regulations, and workforce development programmes.
Workers and communities must be at the heart of the transition, and implementing climate and social protection measures in the buildings sector is critical for this transformation.
Greening the sector and worker skills encompasses social protection measures are critical for ensuring a just clean energy transition. to avoid losers and winners in the transition. If there is no buy-in of workers and local communities and if equity considerations are left out, the transition will generate more inequalities.
The event will feature a panel discussion on the following: the current state of the building sector’s skills shortages and challenges to taking a fair and inclusive approach in addressing this gap; The impacts of the building sector’s transition on the current workforce, and best practices in approaching workforce development that is fair and inclusive; Collaboration with social partners, local authorities, cities and electrical contractors, in the identification, definition and design of new skills sets, curricula and qualifications to respond to the demand of green jobs, anticipate the skills needs and overcome existing skills mismatch.