Green skills

Question 1

green job

Answer 1

A green job is defined as one that helps bring about
and maintain transition to environmentally sustainable
forms of production and consumption.

Question 2

UNEP

Answer 2

According to the United Nations
Environment Program (UNEP), green jobs or
green collar jobs are works in agricultural,
administrative, research and development,
manufacturing and service activities that
contribute substantially to preserving or restoring
environmental quality.

Question 3

‘Environmental quality’

Answer 3

‘Environmental quality’ is a set
of properties and characteristics of the environment,
either generalised or local, as they impinge on human
beings and other organisms.

Question 4

A green collar worker

Answer 4

• A green collar worker is one who is employed in
  the environmental sectors of the economy.
• Green
  collar workers include professionals, such as green
  building architects, environmental consultants, waste
  management or recycling managers, environmental
  or biological systems engineers, landscape architects,
  solar and wind energy engineers and installers, green
  vehicle engineers, organic farmers, environmental
  lawyers and business personnel dealing with
  green services or products.

Question 5

Green workers

Answer 5

• Green workers include
  electricians who install solar panels, plumbers who
  install solar water heaters, construction workers who
  build energy-efficient green buildings, technicians and workers involved in establishing wind power
  farms, and those working for clean and renewable
  energy development.

Question 6

green jobs can also be
distinguished

Answer 6

• At the enterprise level, green jobs can produce
  goods or provide services that benefit the environment,
  for example, green buildings or clean transportation.
• these green outputs (products and services)
  are not always based on green production processes
  and technologies.
• Therefore, green jobs can also be
  distinguished by their contribution to more environment
  friendly processes.
• For example, green jobs can reduce
  water consumption or improve recycling systems.
  India has adopted several measures for ensuring
  sustainability, renewable energy and energy efficiency
  in various sectors, for example, efforts are being
  made to reduce Carbon dioxide emission rates from
  vehicles in automotive sector, promoting use of non
  fossil fuel (solar, hydro and wind) as energy sources
  for power generation in the power sector and enabling
  energy efficient technologies through the concept of
  green buildings in the construction sector.

Question 7

To address the skilled workforce issues associated
with sustainable development

Answer 7

To address the skilled workforce issues associated
with sustainable development, the Ministry of Skill
Development and Entrepreneurship has set up the
‘Skill Council for Green Jobs’. It is working towards
developing competencies of people in the domain
of renewable energy, sustainable development and
waste management.

Question 8

Make in India

Answer 8

• With the aim of providing a greener economy
  and creating environment friendly employment
  opportunities, the government is also providing
  impetus for green jobs as part of restructured growth
  strategies under its ‘Make in India’ campaign.
• ‘Make
  in India’ is designed to facilitate investment, ensure faster innovation, enhance skill development,
  protect intellectual property and build best in
  class manufacturing structures.

Question 9

Benefits of green jobs

Answer 9

The greening of economy presents a major
opportunity to start new businesses, develop
new markets and lower energy costs. Green jobs
that contribute to protecting the environment
and reducing carbon footprint are becoming a
key economic driver of the twenty-first century.
Green jobs help:
* increase the efficiency of energy and
raw material.
* reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
* control waste and pollution.
* protect and restore ecosystems.
* support adaptation to the effects of
climate change.