The Green Jobs for Youth Pact is an interagency partnership between the ILO, UNEP and UNICEF, with and for youth, bringing together governments, businesses, and educational institutions through three tracks:
Employment creation & entrepreneurship
- Development of new, decent green jobs
- Greening of existing jobs
- Fostering green startups and young entrepreneurs
- Greening of existing jobs
Environmental education & skills for green jobs
- Governments and academic institutions to integrate sustainability into curricula and training programs (universities and TVETs)
- Green skills training and assessment
Empowerment & youth engagement
- Youth advocacy for green transition policies
- Mentorship, capacity building, bootcamps, training and accelerator programs to support youth-led green businesses and promote green skills
"Need to double the size of the green talent pool by 2050 - at a bare minimum - to keep pace with projected demand. Roughly half of jobs in the 2050 green economy will lack qualified candidates if we don’t focus on strategic, expansive upskilling."
We need to double the size of the green talent pool by 2050 - at a bare minimum - to keep pace with projected demand. Roughly half of jobs in the 2050 green economy will lack qualified candidates if we
don’t focus on strategic, expansive upskilling.
The pact seeks to close skill gaps, develop green businesses, and promote social equality by prioritizing disadvantaged and climate-vulnerable youth. It aims to accelerate commitments and actions toward a sustainable economy, boosting decent jobs for youth in high-impact sectors. By 2030 the Pact aims to:
- Create 1 million new green jobs for youth, with a particular focus on young women;
- Accelerate the greening of 1 million existing jobs;
- Support 10,000 entrepreneurs to launching or expanding sustainable businesses, while contributing to the creation of green jobs for their peers.
A new bold Pact for the Future
Create 1 million new green jobs for youth, with a particular focus on young women.
Accelerate the greening of 1 million existing jobs
Support 10,000 young entrepreneurs to establish and/or grow sustainable green businesses, while contributing to the creation of green jobs for their peers
Objectives:
- Aggregate: To track progress of existing/new initiatives around specific indicators for green jobs and green skills and agreed taxonomy and definitions.
- Promote: Through promoting the efforts at local/national/regional level undertaken by the different stakeholders around the green jobs and green skills for youth agenda.
- Coordinate: Through coordinating new and evolving research, best practices, events, and standards to create ONE common platform to showcase commitments and success.
- Encouraging: By encouraging our members and youth to take leadership, push this agenda by monitoring and evaluating, enhancing other stakeholders to report on objectives and share progress to influence global action.
- Collaborate: By collaborating with all relevant national and international stakeholders, and especially youth to enhance action on this agenda.
