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":155272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[733,10979,26584,1397,55458,1371,71136,12636,90,56,54,55,10976,37706],"class_list":["post-155271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-construction","tag-decarbonization","tag-environment","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-jobs","tag-pricewaterhousecoopers","tag-renewable-energy","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-view","tag-wind-turbines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}