If you’re looking to quit working in an extractive industry, recently graduated, or are just searching for a career that matches your values after being hit by a bout of climate anxiety, chances are you’ve googled “climate jobs” or scrolled endlessly through educational sites to upskill yourself.
The escalating climate crisis, coupled with rising costs of living and extreme weather conditions, is creating a newfound urgency. Green jobs are now sprouting in overwhelming numbers across the world (a good sign!) but finding the right community for yourself might not be as easy and straightforward.
According to the International Labor Organization, more than 24 million green jobs are estimated to be functional by 2030. As more people are considering a career in climate, many are struggling to understand what that looks like and where they fit in with their skills and capabilities. Fret not—we’ve consolidated a list of resources to get you moving. Start your year with your dream green job…
Step 1 – Subscribe to these Climate & Sustainability Newsletters:
Bloomberg Green
Daily newsletter with perspectives on recent climate/sustainability news, Bloomberg is focused on analysis as well as solutions. Their website features a global, interactive climate dashboard, a daily email newsletter, a podcast, and a magazine!
Axios Generate
This is a daily (weekdays) newsletter with a roundup of the top six recent climate, energy, and technology developments. They cover everything from polucy, science, tech deals, healthm sports, and more.
Keep Cool
Keep Cool and join the crew to stay ahead in Climate Tech – this is where investers, founders, professionals connnect, learn, and collaborate. The newsletter includes subject deep dive blogs, Venture Capital compilations, and job listings.
Climate Tech VC
Join the community of over 40,000 climate investors, founders, and market leaders. In the newsletter, you can expect news and in-depth analysis on the climate tech industry.
Green Is The New Black
Yes, that’s us! Have you subscribed to Green Is The New Black’s newsletter? Our newsletters include a roundup of articles on our site, our latest podcast episodes, and curated media recommendations from the internet, featuring climate-related job opportunities and rare finds. It’s completely free.
Step 2 – Find Your Community:
OpenDoorClimate
#OpenDoorClimate is a community of climate professionals making themselves available to chat with climate career seekers. By offering an #opendoorclimate policy, they are volunteering time to have quick chats with those looking to enter the climate field to share our journey, answer questions, and offer resources.
Work On Climate
Work On Climate is an action-oriented Slack community for people serious about climate work. Find climate jobs. Build climate companies. Find your people. Here you’ll find expert interviews, office hours, job boards, and digital events.
MCJ Collective
Another great slack space for climate-focused professionals, especially those interested in entrepreneurship ($10/month). Their Community Voices Newsletter is a weekly dive into topics relevant to climate solutions for and by the climate community.
Climatebase
With Climatebase, you will be able to discover jobs and thousands of exciting climate tech companies and nonprofits from across the world. Not just that, this is a climate job and networking platform that also offers a climate career accelerator fellowship, if that’s more your style of growing and learning.
ClimateAction.tech
The climate crisis is happening all around us. Tech workers can use their skills to accelerate climate action. At ClimateAction.tech, members meet, discuss, learn, and take climate action together. Focus areas: green software engineering, sustainable product design, low-carbon infrastructure, and business culture and behaviour change.
Climate Draft
A platform for mobilising top talent to work on climate. All the climate solutions we need are already here: learn about climate tech and connect with leading climate startups looking for advisors, investors, and team members.
Step 3 – Job Search:
Green Collar Careers
Browse through this job portal if you’re looking for a new job within sustainability in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, and Vietnam.
Climatebase
Climatebase is focused on solving one of the biggest challenges faced by organisations working on climate: hiring. They also recently launched a social/community element through the launch of Climatebase Fellowshop that’s opening for broader users this year!
The 2-Hour Job Search
Check out this great, systematic approach to help transition into the climate space, or find any new job/opportunity in general. They called it a “science based process for getting that first interview”. Purchase the book here!
Step 4 – Don’t stop learning!
MCJ Podcast
If you’re seeking to better understand climate change and how to help, this might be the one for you. Tune in to onversations with climate leaders across enterprise, non-profits, start-ups, and more.
Degrees Podcast
Degrees is your podcast community for green job mentors, insight into new and growing careers, advice to calm your climate anxiety, and actionable conversations to make a meaningful impact in the world. Host Yesh Pavlik Slenk gets you up close with career changers, CEOs, innovators, sustainability experts — even former White House staffers — about their paths to solving the world’s biggest environmental problems.
Terra.do
This is your ultimate climate education and solutions bootcamp, especially if you’re affected by layoffs! To make the transition to green careers more smooth and just, they offered free resources on how to transition your career into climate, including job fairs, fireside chats, and learning modules. Their mission? Get 100 million people to work directly on climate this decade.
Climate Change Academy
Head over here for guided climate change courses designed for all audiences: entrepreneurs, climate activists, students, and policymakers alike. They provide an accessible and non-technical entry point to the climate space, with guided pathways through the best resources out there that make sense to every learner.
Project Drawdown
Founded in 2014, Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “drawdown”—the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. This project offers job-function action guides to make any job a safe and equitable climate job.
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