Green Career Pathways

The event will open with a keynote presentation on ‘The Role of Education & Skills in UK and Global Climate Action’ by the Rt Hon Michelle Donelan, Minister of State for Higher and Further Education.

After this, a panel of experts will provide insights into how to navigate green career pathways, exploring challenges and opportunities.

After this, a panel of experts will provide insights into how to navigate green career pathways, exploring challenges and opportunities. Panellists will discuss the challenges their sectors face in terms of education, skills, and jobs in a climate emergency. A particular focus would be to identify the actions required to deliver green career pathways that ensure a fair and economy-wide alignment with the Paris climate goals.

The panel will also answer questions from the audience (both in-person and on-line ). We will endeavour to follow up on all questions submitted, even if we don’t have time to answer all at the event.

Meet our Panel

Our panel represents leading expertise drawn from industry, education, and policy arenas, and focussed on realising the net-zero transition:

• Catherine Barber, Deputy Director, Industrial Energy Transformation, BEIS, UK Government
• Charlotte Bonner, National Head of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at ETF, and member of the COP26 Universities Education & Skills steering group
• Rhona Turnbull, Climate, Environment and Emerging Issues Lead at NatWest Group
• Jenny Young, Head of Strategy, Policy & Insights, Engineering Construction Industry Training Board, and member of the COP26 Universities Education & Skills steering group

The panel will be chaired by Prof Dave Reay, Director of Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, University of Edinburgh, and member of the UK Government’s Green Jobs Taskforce.

This event is organised by the University of Edinburgh, with participation with the UK Government and the COP26 Universities Network.

How to access the online event

This event will be live-streamed through a variety of websites, including the COP26 Youtube channel. We will send you the links to the live- stream as soon as these are available nearer the time of the event, we will also share the Q&A after the event.

For more information on how to access the in-person event, see the COP26 Green Zone Ticketing page