UN PRME Working Group on Climate Change and Environment
Launch event of the book:
An Organisational Guide to Skills for Green Workforce Transformation
The book launch of ‘An Organisational Guide to Skills for Green Workforce Transformation’ (edited by Karen Cripps and Candy Ho) was a lively webinar hosted by the PRME ‘Working Group on Responsible Work and Purposeful Careers’, in collaboration with the Working Group on ‘Climate Change and Environment’. With around 230 registrations and 100 people joining live, the turnout shows how timely the book is.
The book has 22 chapters and 45 authors from 15 countries and 17 organisations, ranging from community enterprises to multinationals and professional associations. It is written by practitioners, so each chapter gives a first-hand account of the skills a green, just and inclusive transition needs. It is organised around Project Drawdown's leverage points for organisational climate action, and it uses the language of transferable skills (collaboration, communication, adaptability) and transformative skills (the ones that change systems, such as reflexivity and valuing traditional and Indigenous knowledge). The webinar provided the opportunity to welcome students, educators, career practitioners and business practitioners to hear these themes in the authors' own voices.
Resources
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See the slides: link here
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Watch the recording: link here
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Order the book from Routledge using discount code 26AFLY4 (20% off): https://www.routledge.com/An-Organisational-Guide-to-Skills-for-Green-Workforce-Transformation/Cripps-Ho/p/book/9781041090120
Ask your course leader, library or workplace to buy a copy, to help the book reach as many readers as possible.
If the book is useful in your teaching, practice or organisation, get in touch to share thinking on next steps.
Billionaires and climate change
Author: Dr. Karen Cripps, Oxford Brookes University Business School, United Kingdom
With oversized feet, Izan Zareski’s ‘Big Foot’ family sculptures (Zareski, n.d.), symbolise human connection to the planet through shared experiences, seeking to inspire unity and environmental consciousness across generations. The oversized feet might also be taken to represent the outsized carbon footprint associated with billionaire lifestyles and the unequal power and influence that come with unfettered wealth.
The global non-governmental organisation, Oxfam, has run several campaigns highlighting how climate inequality is magnified by the ‘super-rich’ and that the world’s richest 1% “burn through their entire annual carbon limit in just 10 days” (Oxfam, 2025). Billionaires’ higher carbon emissions are typically associated with lifestyle consumption and travel choices, but also through financial investments, and influence on media/policy.
Read more here
Climate literacy mentoring programme: Open to mentors and mentees
This year, the Working Group is delighted to launch a mentoring programme for anyone interested in climate literacy training. Anyone working within Higher Education is warmly invited to get involved as mentor or mentee. Since its launch a few months ago, many great mentoring relationships are actively underway, based on shared interest in developing climate literacy education across the curriculum, community outreach and/or research. The mentoring relationship can be tailored to suit each individual, providing numerous opportunities to expand your global network. We hope to welcome as many as possible to our climate literacy mentoring community!
On the website link, you can find further information, including a sign-up form.
