Five Degrees of Change
Five Degrees of Change:‘We need 50,000 additional construction workers to build and retrofit homes’
Andrew Brownlee, chief executive of state further education and training agency Solas, says that construction is one of the most important sectors where new labour and new skills are needed to deliver on climate action
Andrew Brownlee considers education and skills to be the secret to economic development, social change and climate action.
As the chief executive of Solas, the state’s further education and training agency, this is perhaps unsurprising. But it’s clear Brownlee means it, and he has thought about it deeply, especially in relation to the skills needed in our economy to deliver climate action.
“I think it's so important that we try and put skills at the ...
