{"id":6166,"date":"2021-11-03T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2021-12-01T08:57:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T08:57:56","slug":"new-jobs-for-a-green-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/new-jobs-for-a-green-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"New jobs for a green transition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Net Zero 2030 isn&#8217;t going to happen by itself &#8211; it will require a lot of work, with lots of amazing engineers to solve a myriad of challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From figuring out how to insulate old houses well, to designing and building new energy distribution grids &#8211; at the &#8220;Sustainability solutions &#8211; Green Jobs in Engineering and Technology&#8221; event, 12 Oct 2021, local engineers discussed the engineering skills needed to address the Climate and Ecological Emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Laura Fogg-Rogers, UWE Bristol, hosted the  online event as part of DETI Inspire&#8217;s youth climate engineering summit  &#8211; all about inspiring the next generation of sustainability-minded engineers (read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/young-engineers-think-educating-the-public-is-key-for-climate-action\/\">summit here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three talks were focused on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The need for jobs in energy, and the transition challenge &#8211; Associate Professor Ruzanna Chitchyan, UoB Cabot Institute<\/li><li>How insulating our homes is a huge but necessary task for our workforce and all homeowners &#8211; Dr Deborah Adkins, UWE Bristol <\/li><li>How we need investment in jobs and skills now &#8211; Denis Fernando, Climate campaigner at Friends of the Earth<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch two of the inspiring talks below and see how you can contribute to our future! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The need for jobs in energy, and the transition challenge - Prof Ruzanna Chitchyan - UoB Cabot Inst\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zrivFKAs8ds?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We need investment in jobs and skills now - Denis Fernando - Friends of the Earth\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/stFPfnHyhMY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net Zero 2030 isn&#8217;t going to happen by itself &#8211; it will require a lot of work, with lots of amazing engineers to solve a myriad of challenges. From figuring out how to insulate old houses well, to designing and building new energy distribution grids &#8211; at the &#8220;Sustainability solutions &#8211; Green Jobs in Engineering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/new-jobs-for-a-green-transition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New jobs for a green transition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":6298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,15,24,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deti","category-events","category-outreach","category-schools","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7204,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions\/7204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}