Green transition will upend labour force, starting with white-collar workers, RBC report says — via financialpost
Canada’s ambitious net-zero goals will require more than three million Canadian workers to learn new job skills over the next decade, and the disruption is already underway for managers overseeing complex projects with significant environmental concerns in engineering, architecture, utilities and manufacturing, according to a newSome highly paid, highly skilled managers in key fields are already seeing over half of their work tasks transformed due to the energy transition — five times that of...
Around 15 per cent of Canada’s labour force will be disrupted over the next 10 years as the country transitions to a net-zero economy. And RBC warns that Canada could be on the cusp of a “generational skills crisis” since cutting emissions by at least 40 per cent by 2030 will require not just financial capital but human capital.
Canada’s transportation, energy, and manufacturing industries are primed to see the most significant changes in the short term; 46 per cent of new jobs in natural resources and agriculture and 40 per cent of new jobs in trades, transport and equipment requiring new skills.
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