International green skills 2023 survey

This year’s IET Skills Survey questioned over 2,000 engineering employers in ten countries around the world on their readiness to cope with climate change and net zero. The main emphasis is on the skills employers feel their businesses need to be resilient against climate change, barriers to becoming net zero and the skills pipeline.   

While most employers say they lack the required skills to be resilient, they are also optimistic about the agility of their staff in adapting to new technologies and ways of working. Across the report, respondents identified a lack specialist environmental skills within their businesses. A number of countries identified a lack of leadership skills as a barrier to achieving net zero, as well as skills within the workforce.

Employers were also asked their opinion of their education system to produce the engineering talent and skills they will need in the future. On this, (with one exception) most countries’ engineering employers were confident their country’s pipeline would provide the future skilled engineers they need but identified opportunities to collaborate with industry as a way of improving this further.

The report also details the technologies for net zero that respondents think are most important in each country, and where they perceive that they have the skills to realise them.

You can also view the data that informs the report by downloading and reading the Appendix!

Published date: Wed 6 Dec 2023