{"id":29780,"date":"2024-08-28T17:48:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=29780"},"modified":"2024-08-28T17:48:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:48:41","slug":"why-green-skills-are-important-for-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/08\/28\/why-green-skills-are-important-for-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are green skills important for youth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"region region-content\">\n<nav class=\"is-scrollable-right\" role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"breadcrumbs\">Half of the world&#039;s population is 30 years old or younger, and that number is expected to reach 57 percent by the end of 2030. This is the largest generation of young people in history. This year&#039;s International Youth Day highlights the importance of developing green skills for young people to ensure the success of a just transition to a greener and more sustainable world, from which all people, including young people, will benefit equally.<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<article class=\"node node--type-news node--view-mode-full clearfix\" data-history-node-id=\"631026\">\n<div class=\"article-layout-middle article-page-main-box\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-l-9 col-m-9 col-s-12\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"block-region-content\">\n<div class=\"block block-ctools-block block-entity-fieldnodefield-page-main-text-body block-entity-field-node-field-page-main-text-body\">\n<div class=\"content block__content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-page-main-text-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item\">\n<p>Green skills include technical knowledge, expertise and abilities that enable the effective use of green technologies and processes in a professional environment. They draw on a range of knowledge, values and attitudes to facilitate environmentally sustainable decision-making at work and in life. Although green competences are relevant to people of all ages, they are of greater importance to younger people who can contribute to ecological transformation over a longer period of time.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;One of the main challenges we face as young people in accessing green jobs is a lack of clarity about career paths and training resources, as well as a lack of mentorship or support systems to develop green careers,&quot; said Kristy Drutman, co-founder of the Green Jobs Board. , a platform that provides environmental job seekers with a one-stop resource to discover and learn about environmental job opportunities. (<em>More on <a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/news\/why-are-green-skills-important-for-youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">unfccc.int<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of the world\u2019s population is 30 years old or younger, and this figure is expected to reach 57 percent by the end of 2030. This is the largest generation of young people in history. This year\u2019s International Youth Day highlights the importance of developing green skills for youth to ensure the success of a just transition to a greener and more sustainable world, from which they will have [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}