Budget announcement of Green Jobs Workforce Academy hailed
Scottish Renewables' CEO: Initiative 'will help provide the skills Scotland will desperately need if it is to contribute to the global fight against climate change and capture the social and economic benefits of doing so' The creation of a Green Jobs Workforce Academy which will focus on "a national mission for new, good, and green jobs" has been announced in today's Scottish Government Budget (Jan 28). Finance Secretary Kate Forbes made the pledge, which is set to ensure those reskilling or facing redundancy can take advantage of green job opportunities as they emerge. Those opportunities are expected to come from: The transition to renewable heat, which is expected to create between 16,000 and 17,000 skilled jobs over the next decade. The more-than ten-fold increase in Scotland's offshore wind sector which The Scottish Government deems possible by 2030. Continued development of mature technologies, such as onshore wind and solar, and innovative ones, like tidal and floating wind, needed to meet our net-zero target. The move mirrors Scottish Renewables' recent call for a skills centre of excellence to be established, and for industry to be consulted on the content of its curriculum. Responding to today's announcement, Scottish Renewables Chief Executive Claire Mack said: “The Climate Change Committee has said the UK must