4 Your Career, Our Future


New information is always available on the Internet about topics such as sustainable development, the transition to a green or circular economy, and green job opportunities – from agroecology and agroforestry, to biodiversity conservation, to green roofs and urban agriculture, to reducing unnecessary consumption and waste and the expected impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.


Many blogs, articles, reports, podcasts and videos are available, including:


• the UNEP, FAO, ILO, and other United Nations organizations and entities;


• other international organizations (e.g. OECD; The Forum Network);


• non-governmental organizations (NGOs) like the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF);


• websites of universities and scientific institutions (e.g. see INRA 2018b; Africa University 2019; Qatar University 2019; Ross and Kowarski 2019; U.S. News and World


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Report 2019; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute 2019; University of California Television 2019).


• ministries and other governmental sources in countries; and


• YouTube, where there are videos on almost every topic you can think of, including green jobs.


Many websites describe green jobs and show you ways to find them. Some can direct you to employers or even show specific job vacancies. These include both commercial jobs and non- profits –including Conservation Careers, Environment Jobs, Environmental Career Opportunities, EnvironmentalScience.org, the Global Recruitment Company, Green America, Green Choices, GreenJobs and LinkedIn. Some others with international coverage (e.g. Guardian Jobs and New Scientist Jobs) not only show jobs in various categories, but also offer advice about job searches and interviewing. Even though some websites focus on specific countries, environment-oriented job sites are valuable sources of information. For example, Conservation Careers offers a free, downloadable


guide for “conservation job-hunters and career- switchers” based on interviews with hundreds of professional conservationists around the world (Conservation Careers 2019). But be careful though, if you are interested in a job that you have found on a non-commercial site, such as from an international organization or an NGO, fake recruitment scams exist where applicants are asked to pay to be part of the application process (see warnings at Oxfam 2019 and United Nations 2019d).


Some countries are encouraging young people (and those who are older) to learn about environmental issues and to prepare for the green jobs market, including through vocational training (Maclean, Jagannathan and Panth 2017; Government of India 2019). In other countries, it can be difficult to find this type of information through the public education system (Trendov, Varas and Zeng 2019). Only around 68 per cent of the young people who took the GEO-6 for Youth survey (see Annex 1) had some knowledge of the green economy or green jobs. About 32 per cent knew nothing about green jobs, and did not have any information from their schools, governments


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