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🌍 🌱 The countdown is on!! The Green Talent Forum is officially one week away -- Don't miss out! The #GreenTalentForum 2024 is set to be the largest virtual sustainability career event of the year, happening on Wednesday, October 23rd! ✨ Why Attend? - Connect with Industry Leaders-- Engage with top experts from inspiring companies like #IBM, Baker McKenzie, Writer and Deloitte. Gain insights into the latest trends in sustainability and circular economy. - Explore Career Opportunities-- Whether you're seeking internships or full-time positions, this forum is your gateway to exciting job opportunities in sustainable industries. - Interactive Sessions-- Participate in discussions and live Q&A that cover everything from carbon accounting to ESG reporting. Ask questions and get direct advice from the pros! 👥 Who Should Attend? This event is perfect for university students and recent graduates eager to kickstart their careers in sustainability. Learn how to build your professional profile, acquire new skills, network and find roles. 🌐 Join a Global Community: Network with thousands of like-minded individuals passionate about making a difference. Share ideas, collaborate, and find your place in the green revolution! 🔗 Register Now: https://lnkd.in/dFv23z3y 🌟 Get ready to shape your future and contribute to a sustainable world. See you at the Green Talent Forum 2024! Be sure to tag a friend who might be interested. #GreenJobs #SustainabilityCareers #FutureOfWork #LocalizedGTF Eugene Kirpichov Work on Climate Terra.do Climate Fresk #TerraDo #WorkonClimate May Habib Tarisai G. Jamil Wyne Amit Sevak Asim Hussain Sebastian Baquero Haley Lowry Neil Yeoh Esraa Abdelkader Peggy Liu

Are you an aspiring independent or a transitioning solopreneur ready to launch your solo business in the climate sector? Join our workshop “How to Build a Solo Business in Climate” on November 6 and connect with Lilli Graf, Founder of IMMA Collective, who transformed her solo practice into a thriving consultancy. Gain insight into the career choice of working independently in the climate space, strategies to build a profitable business that aligns with your values while driving climate action, and more! Register now: https://lu.ma/3he3522u #Soloprenuer #Entreprenuership #ClimateWork

“There’s such a big value in gathering a community together around solving a specific problem. Much more impact oriented than gathering for the sake of gathering.” Our initiative to fix the climate STEM talent pipeline just hit a huge milestone that I'm really proud of 💚 It proves that Work on Climate approach to workforce systems change is viable, and it gives me goosebumps that it actually worked. So, what did we do and how'd it go? A big bottleneck to climate tech innovation is shortage and lack of diversity in STEM talent - but the STEM talent pipeline is highly complex, no organization can fix it single-handedly. Last year we gathered a large group of powerful organizations all across the STEM talent pipeline in NY/NJ: educators at all levels, government agencies, professional associations, funders, and so on. We've been leading this group over the past 12+ months to conduct necessary research and identify specific bottlenecks in the pipeline, to prepare for building solutions to the bottlenecks. And... 🥁🥁🥁 at Climate Week NYC we got 9 of the organizations to commit to prototyping specific solutions to these talent bottlenecks!! (triple over the goal we set) What does this mean? - For the participating organizations: They are now drastically more ready for what the green economy will need from them. They are at the forefront of the change that all of their peers will need to embrace. - For us and for our funders: Our approach (assembling and leading a group of organizations across the "supply chain" of a specific climate workforce issue) is likely to work, and in the coming months we'll get even more signal. We should be doing more of this. - For climate action in the US: The first systemic effort to fix the climate STEM talent pipeline in the US is, so far, on track to succeed and be replicable. This gives hope, but also means it's time that others start replicating this work - it can't be just us. See blog link in comments!

New York Climate Week was a massive success, and we’re thrilled to share highlights from our Work on Climate Design Summit 2024! With 52 diverse attendees from 40 organizations, we fostered countless new connections and strengthened existing ones, all dedicated to driving impactful change. Highlights from the Design Summit: 🧠 Collectively brainstormed 8 solutions to 10 Problem Statements to expand a diverse Advanced STEM workforce in cleantech across New Jersey and New York. ✅ Exceeded expectations with 9 pilot plans developed by 10 organizations, tripling our goal! They will begin testing these solutions in October and November, some of which include: - Building Excitement for Cleantech Careers in Schools: Introduce cleantech career awareness into K-12 classrooms - Keeping Foreign-Born National Talent: Retaining foreign-born professionals by creating pathways that allow them to stay in the U.S. and continue their work on climate innovations - Micro-credential Programs: Address the immediate need for workers, this project expands micro-credential programs to upskill individuals for roles in the clean economy quickly - Cleantech Job Awareness for Job Seekers: Create a bridge between job seekers and career opportunities - Increasing Diversity: “Indigenous 101" program aims to increase diversity in the cleantech workforce by providing training and support for Indigenous employees - Providing Wraparound Supports for Marginalized Groups: Provides intersectional, wraparound support for women, gender-expansive individuals, and people of color to ensure they can thrive We’ll keep you updated as the work ramps up. Thank you to everyone who participated! #NYCW #NewYorkClimateWeek #NYCW2024 #WorkOnClimate #GreenCareers

Join the OnePointFive (opf.degree) team to learn to learn the latest practitioner insights, tools and approaches to decarbonizing your strategy & operations! Tomorrow, Matthias Muehlbauer will be providing an overview of the marginal abatement cost curve, decarbonization investment and sequencing of your sustainability initiatives, and as well as learning the various types of internal carbon pricing. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn the latest practitioner insights, tools & approaches to decarbonizing your strategy & operations! Sign up: https://lu.ma/n5uin19k

Do you want to learn about the latest developments in climate tech? Join SOSV’s annual Climate Tech Summit (Oct 14-18)—it’s online and free, and features some of the most iconic investors and startups of our times (past speakers include Bill Gates, Chris Sacca, Vinod Khosla and over a dozen unicorns founders). Founders and investors can also join their unique Matchup matchmaking platform with over 1,000 participants. #ClimateTech #Matchup #ClimateEvent

Hot take: if you're looking for a job in sustainability, stop looking for roles with "sustainability" in the title => Look for functional roles at places where you can have climate impact in the role. There's *way* too few of them; unless you're a sustainability unicorn (in which case you probably don't need my advice), you probably won't get it. And that's not a bad thing. At companies that are actually serious about sustainability, almost all the work is done by functional teams (finance, product, supply chain etc), not by sustainability teams. Just like, at most companies, you don't expect software engineers to be the only ones (or the majority) doing work with a computer. I know companies with X00,000 employees that are known for being generally ahead of the game on sustainability, but they have 15-300 person sustainability teams (0.1-0.01% of their workforce), and you're lucky if they have 1-2 job openings on them. That's not because they're not doing anything. That's because almost everything they are doing has been integrated into functional teams. The role of sustainability teams is coordination and reporting, not implementation. So what should you do? I think you should ask yourself "how do I find a company where I will be able to drive climate impact in my functional role" and find a job there. Look at whether they have lines of business building climate solutions, look at their sustainability reports, look at whether they ask for any green skills in their job postings for this functional role, talk to the hiring manager about what kind of sustainability work people in this role actually tend to do at the company. And if they're not there yet (many companies aren't), then assess how likely it is that you'll be able to drive bottom-up change - how open are they in practice to bottom-up initiatives in general? Is their business model one where you *could* propose tangible changes towards sustainability that would be aligned with it? (no company is going to let you do something that doesn't make business sense) In this case, you'll also need political skills to get buy-in for the changes you're proposing - but the leverage is also higher. P.S. Stay tuned for our coming-soon report on the workforce structure and dynamics during a company's path to sustainability!

🟢 Reciprocity Circle 🟢 Are you a climate founder, recruiter, or talent manager in need of a growth consultant? Our Reciprocity Circle features community members seeking opportunities and collaboration - if you can offer support, just reach out directly. 🤝 Meet Jonathan Stokely, a Swiss-army knife growth guru looking for opportunities in operations, development, or growth strategy. Jonathan has been an SME in our community and has run many events that provide finance professionals and aspiring founders with insights into how to be more effective at what they do. Jonathan’s diverse background from climatech to AI at startups and corporations allows him to wear many hats and work cross-divisionally to implement growth strategies and increase efficiencies to grow the triple-bottom line. He would love to take on a project pro bono to demonstrate the value he brings. 

Join us and the OnePointFive (opf.degree) team next week to learn the latest practitioner insights, tools & approaches to decarbonizing your strategy & operations! Matthias Muehlbauer will be giving an overview on: 📊 The Marginal Abatement Cost Curve 🌳 Decarbonization investment 🌱 Sequencing your sustainability initiatives 💰 Internal carbon pricing types Sign up: https://lu.ma/n5uin19k

We’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, a leader in fostering local climate ecosystems across cities like San Francisco and Seattle, with upcoming expansions in Los Angeles, New York City, and more. This partnership is designed to support climate professionals by providing access to valuable resources and networks, and to continue building local hubs for climate professionals. 🌟 Exclusive Member Benefits: As a member of the Work on Climate community, you have the unique opportunity to access 9Zero’s Club Membership at an exclusive discounted rate: - $85/month for 3 months (originally $150/month) - Steep discounts on flex desk, permanent desk, or private office solutions - As a Founding Member, you’ll have access to 9Zero’s dynamic coworking spaces across multiple cities, instantly connecting you to local ecosystems. - Invitations to inspiring events and innovative workshops - Connection to a vast network of climate professionals and organizations dedicated to making a difference Sign up and tour the 9Zero community to unlock an exclusive Work on Climate discount and begin your journey --> https://tally.so/r/3jWGRE