The green transition is transforming economies and labour markets, creating new skills needs and reshaping existing occupations. Yet policy fragmentation across skills, employment, industrial, environmental, digital, trade, and fiscal domains often hinders effective responses to these transitions.
As countries pursue climate objectives, skills are increasingly recognised as a critical enabler of investment, productivity, competitiveness, and a buffer that prevents negative social and economic impacts and supports just transitions. However, translating these ambitions into coherent TVET and skills policies remains a challenge.
This session explores how stronger policy coherence can better align skills development with climate, industrial, digital, and investment strategies. Drawing on international evidence and country experiences, it will examine governance approaches and institutional arrangements that help connect skills supply with evolving demand and support sustainable, inclusive economic transformation.
The session will explore practical approaches to embedding skills considerations across policy domains, including in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), digital transformation strategies and sectoral investment programmes. It will also discuss recent findings on TVET systems and the green transition, labour market outcomes in emerging sectors, and country efforts to modernise training programmes and occupational standards to reflect the needs of green and digitally enabled industries.
