While “green skills” is a powerful framing in policy and labour‑market contexts, we see an opportunity to gently broaden that definition and the conversation. We can no longer say green skills are seen as having a competitive edge as the world deprioritises sustainability, so we need a new hook that speaks to the realities of business, policy and finance. What skillsets are required to motivate market shifts? What kinds of leadership, resilience and balance between short- and long-term priorities are needed to navigate disruption? Our recommendation is therefore to go beyond technical skills (e.g., carbon accounting) towards building a broad baseline sustainability understanding for all roles, and – critically – developing the leadership and organisational capabilities required to to translate skills into measurable impact.
