How can human capital support the transition to carbon-neutral circular economies?
What impact will the green transition have on jobs and skills?
What does this mean for education and training systems?
How will this affect developing and transition countries?
What governance models will be needed to drive innovation and change?
These are some of the questions that will be addressed at a High Level Round Table on human capital and climate action organised jointly by the European Training Foundation (ETF) and the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) as part of the IIAS 2020 International Congress on Public Governance for Climate Action.
Come and join the discussion!
ETF-IIAS High-Level Round Table on the nexus between human capital and climate action
Wednesday 16 December 11:00-12:30 CET.
The event will take place online via Zoom (Launch Meeting - Zoom) and will be broadcast live on FaceBook (ETF - European Training Foundation - Post | Facebook) and YouTube (Link will be available here).
In response to the climate emergency and the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, countries around the world are looking to the green transition as a path to economic recovery and a better future for all. The European Union is leading the way with the European Green Deal, an ambitious strategy to achieve a clean circular economy and carbon neutrality by 2050. Human capital has a key role to play. The green transition will impact jobs and skills, and education and training systems will need to step up to the challenge of skilling, upskilling and reskilling people for the new context. The environment is a public good and so is education and training. Public policies should be able to deliver on a much larger scale regarding both the depth of economic transformation, and the width of new skills and re-skilling for people. The experience shows that for such systemic transformations, a participatory, multilevel and multi-actor governance is the most promising approach.
The Round Table will be chaired by
- Cesare Onestini, ETF Director,
and will feature:
- Nicolas Schmit, EU Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights,
- Sofiane Sahraoui, IIAS Director General,
- Geert Bouckaert, former President of the IIAS and Professor at the KU Leuven Public Governance Institute,
- Rainer Kattel, Deputy Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose,
- Tamar Kitiashvili, Georgian Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports,