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- September 2024
The Hill: 22 states want to employ 1 million people in climate apprenticeships by 2035
September 24, 2024
The Hill describes how the Governors’ Climate-Ready Workforce Initiative, announced during Climate Week NYC 2024, will expand career pathways in climate and clean energy fields.
“Through this initiative, they will aim to set up funding and partnerships in order to expand pathways for work that mitigates climate change.
The career paths will include making power systems and buildings low-carbon and resilient, as well as making communities prepared and resilient for climate-related extreme weather.
As part of the goal, some states announced specific policies. New York will put $2.3 million toward training people for careers in offshore wind while New Mexico issued an executive order saying that it will train 2,000 workers in ‘climate-ready’ professions by 2026.
Apprenticeships are training programs that include both instruction and actual work, with the goal of preparing people to work in certain fields. Currently, there are about 660,000 people taking part in registered apprenticeships across various industries.”
About the Alliance
Launched in 2017 by the governors of Washington, New York, and California to help fill the void left by the U.S. federal government’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the Alliance has grown to include 24 governors from across the U.S. representing approximately 60 percent of the U.S. economy and 55 percent of the U.S. population. Governors in the Alliance have pledged to collectively reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26-28 percent by 2025, 50-52 percent by 2030, and 61-66 percent by 2035, all below 2005 levels, and collectively achieve overall net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as practicable, and no later than 2050.
The Alliance’s states and territories continue to advance innovative and impactful climate solutions to grow the economy, create jobs, and protect public health, and have a long record of action and results. In fact, the latest data shows that as of 2023, the Alliance has reduced its collective net greenhouse gas emissions by 24 percent below 2005 levels, while increasing collective GDP by 34 percent, and is on track to meet its near-term climate goal of reducing collective greenhouse gas emissions 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.
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