When it comes to meeting targets for the transition to greener energy, we typically focus on a lack of financing or shortfalls in gigawatts of renewable sources. But wind turbines don\u2019t install themselves \u2014 and the clean-energy sector is short of people with the right skills.<\/p>\n
PricewaterhouseCoopers reckons that the UK faces a gap of around 200,000 workers<\/a> to deliver on its decarbonization targets. Research by social media platform LinkedIn<\/a> found that, globally, almost one-in-five jobs requiring climate-related expertise will lack qualified candidates by 2030 if current trends continue. While Britain’s need for engineers, welders and electricians is well documented<\/a>, less has been said about the rising demand for expertise in geology and geophysics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to meeting targets for the transition to greener energy, we typically focus on a lack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[218,2127,8851,246,18934,61,60,150,29396,3400,82,303,11510,29299],"class_list":{"0":"post-38369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-construction","10":"tag-decarbonization","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-generic-1st-cl-future","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-jobs","16":"tag-pricewaterhousecoopers","17":"tag-renewable-energy","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-view","21":"tag-wind-turbines"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}