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U.S. Climate Alliance governors and Biden-Harris leadership convened in New York City during Climate Week NYC 2024 to launch the Governors’ Climate-Ready Workforce Initiative, a new effort to grow career pathways in climate and clean energy fields and strengthen workforce diversity.
Under this Initiative, Alliance states and territories will collaborate to collectively support 1 million new workers in completing Registered Apprenticeship programs across the coalition by 2035. These programs, registered with the U.S. Department of Labor or federally approved State Apprenticeship Agencies, provide an especially valuable and proven career pathway, empowering workers to earn while they learn in key climate-ready occupations and industries.
The announcement was made at a Climate Week NYC event featuring Alliance co-chairs New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, founding member Washington Governor Jay Inslee, and White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi.
👷♀️💼 Climate action means jobs — & today, we’re proud to launch the Governors’ Climate-Ready Workforce Initiative.
— U.S. Climate Alliance (@USClimate) September 23, 2024
The goal: Grow climate & clean energy career pathways + jointly train 1M new registered apprentices across our coalition.
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Alliance members will also advance a series of collective goals aimed at strengthening and expanding pathways into a wide variety of climate-ready professions critical to building a clean, equitable, and resilient net-zero future. The Initiative’s goals include boosting job quality and ensuring climate-ready employment pathways lead to good-paying, high-quality jobs; expanding opportunities for workers from underrepresented and underserved communities; and promoting the use of stackable and portable credentials in climate-ready fields to build transferable skills, support reskilling and upskilling, and strengthen workers’ economic mobility.
To advance sector-specific strategies, Alliance members will also work together through new multi-state cohorts focused on in-demand, climate-ready fields. These cohorts will provide a platform for states and territories to increase collaboration, share evidence-based practices, engage experts and stakeholders, and develop sectoral workforce solutions that can be scaled across the country.
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