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    Force of Nature – Reversing nature’s decline and promoting equity in the green transition

    A call to action for immediate action on green jobs to tackle nature decline across the UK. Nature in the UK is in decline. Since 1970, UK species have declined by 19% on average, and nearly 1 in 6 species are now threatened with extinction. Most people connect with nature close to home but funding…

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  • Planning for the Future: Recruiting diverse Talent into Waste and Resource Management

    Employers must do more to encourage diverse talent into waste and resources management This report has been published in partnership with the Environmental Services and Solutions Expo. The research investigated young people’s perceptions on waste and resources management, and any barriers that might prevent them from choosing the sector as a career. This report spotlights…

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    Growing Green Careers Report

    How people and places can thrive in a green economy Green jobs are any jobs that have a direct, positive impact on nature recovery or tackling climate change and that will form part of the low carbon economy of the future. Green jobs have the potential to provide long-term employment to thousands of people in…

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    What’s a working life worth?

    For those who witness at first hand the devastating and demoralising effects of long-term worklessness, talk of efficiency and economics is at best immaterial and at worst insulting. For them, as it should be for all of us, one life wasted is one too many. Graham Duxbury & Eoin Heffernan, September 2015 Between 2010 and…

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