Why climate literacy matters for business, growing the green workforce

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Oct 4, 2024

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Kathleen Rogers

Kathleen Rogers, President of EarthDay.org, and Frank Niepold from NOAA highlight the critical need for climate literacy to empower future generations. AY Young, a UN Young Leader, shares how music can drive sustainability awareness. Gayle Schueller from 3M discusses the technological innovations creating green jobs. The conversation emphasizes the link between climate education and workforce development, pushing for better communication of career paths in sustainable sectors and underscoring the urgency for systemic educational reforms.

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INSIGHT

Climate Literacy Challenge

Educators lack comfort and knowledge in teaching climate change effectively.
Young people desire climate education, but educators need training and resources.

ADVICE

Framing Climate Change

Frame climate change as a positive opportunity, not just a crisis.
Connect climate education to job opportunities and empower young people as innovators.

INSIGHT

Workforce Gap

Businesses haven't recognized the non-existent workforce needed for the low-carbon transition.
Signaling future green job opportunities to young people is crucial for effective workforce development.

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At Climate Week NYC 2024, many conversations focused on improving public understanding of climate change — also known as climate literacy. In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast we explore how increasing climate literacy can help prepare the future workforce for the green job opportunities that will come with the low-carbon transition.

We sit down on the sidelines of The Nest Climate Campus with Kathleen Rogers, President of Earthday.org. This is a nonprofit that grew out of the first Earth Day in 1970 and has a goal of raising public awareness about environmental issues.

We also talk with Frank Niepold, Senior Climate Education Coordinator at the Climate Program Office of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Frank co-authored a new interagency climate literacy guide for educators, communicators, and decisionmakers.

To understand how culture can help educate about climate change, we speak to AY Young, a United Nations Young Leader who uses his music to spread awareness about sustainability issues including the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

And we hear how some companies are approaching the topic in interviews with Gayle Schueller, Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at technology and manufacturing company 3M; and Holly Paeper, President of the Commercial HVAC Americas business at Trane Technologies, a building technology and energy solutions company.

Listen to our prior episodes from Climate Week NYC 2024 here:

Kicking off Climate Week NYC with an urgent to-do list: https://www.spglobal.com/esg/podcasts/kicking-off-climate-week-nyc-with-an-urgent-to-do-list

CDP CEO talks climate, nature and the future of sustainability disclosure: https://www.spglobal.com/esg/podcasts/cdp-ceo-talks-climate-nature-and-the-future-of-sustainability-disclosure

Audubon CEO on why bird loss indicates a planet in crisis: https://www.spglobal.com/esg/podcasts/audubon-ceo-on-why-bird-loss-indicates-a-planet-in-crisis

SBTi interim CEO on what’s next for net-zero standards: https://www.spglobal.com/esg/podcasts/sbti-interim-ceo-on-what-s-next-for-net-zero-standards

California state senator talks climate disclosure featuring: https://www.spglobal.com/esg/podcasts/california-state-senator-talks-climate-disclosure

This piece was published by S&P Global Sustainable1, a part of S&P Global.

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