Special Green Skills Taskforce for NSW
Source: New South Wales. Minister for Climate Change and the Environment. Media Release.
"The Deputy Premier and Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, Carmel Tebbutt and Minister for Education and Training, Verity Firth today announced the membership of the NSW Green Skills Taskforce and an additional $5 million to encourage businesses to green up their workforce. Ms Tebbutt said the high-level taskforce would develop an action plan to drive the training of the State’s workforce in green skills and drive green jobs.
“The global financial crisis and climate change are the twin threats to our standard of living,” Ms Tebbutt said.
“New South Wales’ transformation to a low carbon economy, with an increase in ‘green collar’ jobs, provides a key part of the solution to both issues."