Isra-Mart srl:Press Release: GHG Management Institute: Release of second annual GHG/Climate Change Workforce Needs Assessment survey

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Later this month the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute, in cooperation with Sequence Staffing, will release the results of its second annual GHG/Climate Change Workforce Needs Assessment survey. Building on 2009’s findings (last year’s survey report available here), the 2010 survey report captures the responses of nearly 1,000 global GHG practitioners on a number of key climate change workforce development and topical policy questions.

This survey offers rare insight into the collective perspective of the nascent global climate change workforce. The full survey report will be made freely available later this month in advance of the UN climate change talks (COP16) in Cancun, Mexico.

Some of the important points:

GHG practitioners concerned by competency of peers; auditors split on quality of client GHG work

• Auditors sharply divided on quality of GHG work

• Auditing relationships strained by expectation gaps?

• GHG practitioners give peers low marks on competency

Carbon markets not up to snuff, auditing needs enhanced governance, particularly CDM/JI verification

• Vast majority of climate practitioners believe GHG auditing lacks sufficient oversight

• Climate change community split on meaning of EB auditor suspensions

• Majority of GHG practitioners believe CDM/JI auditor accreditation falls short on measuring competence

• Climate practitioners come out strongly for individual certification of auditors

GHG skills mismatch roles in current market, competency concerns loom with expansion of climate programs which inexorably continue to expand in spite of policy setbacks

• Gaps exist between carbon HR supply and demand

• Lion’s share of climate practitioners envision a day of corporate carbon managers across industry

• Climate policy practitioners believe non-energy intensive organizations may be regulated in future climate policy programs

• GHG HR capacity stands as a challenge of future climate agreements, mechanisms

Climate employers and job seekers cite challenges in demonstrating/assessing carbon accounting competency, see professional certification as a fix

• HR directors cite challenges assessing GHG job applicants

• Carbon credentials currently challenging to prove, professionals would benefit from certification