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One million young people are not in work or education, and we're all scared about the climate crisis.
There’s such an obvious solution.
Our government could tackle the climate emergency and youth unemployment at the same time - by investing in thousands of good climate jobs to create a safer and fairer future for us all.
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We want the government to create a Youth Climate Jobs Guarantee: a nationwide programme of investment to create thousands of well paid climate jobs so that any young person who wants one, can have one.
A few of policies the government could deliver right now to begin the Youth Climate Jobs Guarantee:
- Deliver a National Climate and Nature Service: a national programme of well paid climate and nature based training placements for young people across the UK, to help them gain skills and experience to build careers in tackling the climate and nature crisis.
- Focus current schemes like the Youth Guarantee on training and jobs that tackle the climate emergency, including expanding green apprenticeships, supporting employers to provide paid work experience and ensuring all young people can access the scheme.
- Mass expansion of green apprenticeships, dramatically increasing the number of apprenticeships leading to jobs in the green economy, such as electricians, heat-pump installers, retrofit workers, renewable-energy technicians, environmental engineers, forestry workers and sustainable construction.
- Invest in sectors that directly combat climate impacts - from people working on flood prevention and response to fire fighters tackling wildfires.
- Accelerate and prioritise the Warm Homes Plan to retrofit Britain - particularly in areas with poor-quality housing, high fuel poverty, high unemployment and large numbers of social homes.
Want to take further action? Green New Deal Rising is a movement of young people fighting for climate justice, and we're organising all over the UK. Join a welcome call to find out more!
