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This European Synthesis Report explores skills development in response to the greening agenda at national, regional and local  levels in six Member States: Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Spain, France and the UK.

It addresses the environmental challenges and skill requirements alongside anticipating such requirements in workforces and amid the job market.

Organisation :
World Bank Group

This report is part of 'China 2030'. China should complete its transition to a market economy through enterprise, land, labor, and financial sector reforms, strengthen its private sector, open its markets to greater competition and innovation, and ensure equality of opportunity to help achieve its goal of a new structure for economic growth. These are some of the key findings of China 2030, a joint research report by a team from the World Bank and the Development Research Center of China's State Council.

Organisation :
World Bank Group

This book published by the World Bank suggests a multifaceted approach that addresses spatial development, energy-efficient industry, increased public transport, and sustainable waste management systems. By simultaneously acting on these issues, cities can begin to streamline climate change considerations into planning and investment decisions. The book also focuses on specific sectoral energy challenges, and provides recommendations to each sector. Furthermore, it lays out five key cross-cutting actions that form an overarching framework for low-carbon city development, namely to set appropriate indicators to encourage low-carbon growth; complement administrative measures with market-based approaches and tools; break links between land use, city financing and urban sprawl; encourage inter-sectoral and inter-jurisdictional cooperation; and balance climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts. This summary was prepared by Eldis.

Organisation :
World Economic Forum (WEF)

At a time when extreme weather events are coming with increasing frequency—and an increased price tag for clean-up—cash-strapped governments are seeking new solutions to build climate resilience.  A new World Economic Forum Report offers some hope. The Green Investment Report: The Ways and Means to Unlock Private Finance for Green Growth finds that approximately US$ 34 billion in additional public funding is needed to stablise global temperatures at an acceptable level—less than the US$ 50 billion recently approved by the United States Congress for rebuilding resilience after Hurricane Sandy. By increasing climate-related public funding from its current level of US$ 96 billion to around US$ 130 billion, it could mobilise private capital in the range of US$ 570 billion. This would address the US$ 700 billion in investment that the Report finds is required to put the world on a climate-resilient path towards green growth.

International Labour Organization (ILO)

A study on the skill requirements needed to relaize the potential of green jobs in Mauritius in order to make the transition to a greener economy in Mauritius. This study intends to analyze the creation of decent jobs as a consequence of the needed environmental and energy policies. Thus the growing importance of sustainability and the shift to a low-carbon economy requires deeper analysis into the human resources and skill requirements needed to accompany this transition.