Make Your Career Climate Change Oriented

There are thousands of jobs available in climate change. Consider switching careers or reorienting your current work to benefit our planet.

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Why is this important?

  • Millions of jobs focusing on climate protection and sustainability are being created as part of the transition to a climate-safe world.
  • Jobs in clean technology, responsible finance, software engineering, marketing, regenerative agriculture, operations, and construction are all expanding rapidly and frequently paying well.


Key Actions

Explore climate career opportunities

What do climate careers entail? Take ten minutes to look at the available job opportunities and consider potential matches with your interests. If you're looking for work, consider applying to them. If you're a student, these will assist you in learning about the industry.

Action:

  1. Read this Sustainability Career guide to find out more about the opportunities available.
  2. Explore climate-positive career opportunities at Climatebase.org.
  3. Discover even more climate career opportunities at Sustainable Career Pathways .
  4. For engineering students, Impact Labs makes applying to socially-positive jobs easy.
  5. Read GreenBiz’s annual "State of the Profession report" to learn about how much sustainability employees earn, where they work and what they do.

Sign up to a climate jobs newsletter

Keep up with climate news, explore career opportunities, and find the most recent job postings.

Action:

  1. Sign-up for Ed's Clean Energy & Sustainability Jobs, a clean energy & sustainability jobs newsletter.
  2. Sign-up for Climate Base’s newsletter Climate Careers.

Bring climate awareness to your job now

Many people are demonstrating climate leadership in their workplaces through their work, voice, and example.

Action:

  1. Make a plan and talk to colleagues how you can build climate action into your workplace.
  2. In a tech job? Join ClimateAction.Tech a global network of tech professionals supporting climate solutions.
  3. Writing? Incorporate climate change into your narratives or reporting to help inspire others to action.
  4. Involved in economics? Get involved with Economists for Future a group created to mobilize economists to avert the climate crisis.
  5. Teaching? Access high quality cross-curricula resources by teachers to help pupils understand climate change.
  6. Creative? Follow Climate Designers who have a climate career guide specific to you.
  7. Student? Explore Impact Labs to get connected to Climate social entrepreneurs.

Upskill with a course on sustainability

It is critical to learn more about the scope of the crisis, its causes, and some potential solutions.

Action:

  1. Check out Climate-Science’s collection of short crash courses on topics ranging from causes of climate change to climate predictions and clean energy.
  2. Get a climate crash course, work on projects from climate organizations and meet potential collaborators at Terra.do.
  3. Take a free course focused on sustainability in business and innovation on SAP’s educational platform.