How to Start a Career in Green Tech 🌍 | Skills & Jobs Explained

Clean energy and green tech is really an important sector for us right now. We know we need to reduce fossil fuel reliance. We have huge tech advancements that are not adequately considering sustainability at their core. This is a rapidly expanding area. Renewable energy is expanding. There's increasing subsidies for these areas. There's increasing funding. Understanding the foundational concepts of integrating renewable energy to organisations, to systems, is essential if you want to excel in this industry. So our courses in clean energy and green tech are ideal for both entrepreneurs who are looking to invest in a venture and make that venture as sustainable as possible, either by incorporating renewable energy, by utilizing AI in a sustainable manner, or incorporating e-mobility principles into their supply chains, or for individuals looking to transform an organization sustainably. But it can also be those who are looking to utilize tech to create sustainable impact, either utilizing their existing coding skills to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, to basically revolutionizing renewable energy infrastructure uptake by organizations. So it depends on the focus. It can be those looking to transform sustainably or those looking to specifically create impact utilizing green tech. So the type of skills one needs to work in green tech is ultimately an understanding of how tech can be applied to environmental and social challenges, a foundational understanding of renewable energy concepts and renewable energy infrastructure, understanding of AI's application for tackling sustainable challenges and how sustainable AI is, an understanding of how to transition to e-mobility infrastructure and e-mobility application. We're currently living in a massive period of climate upheaval. We have rising temperatures, extreme weather events, biodiversity loss, and this is driving social inequality from income, gender, healthcare, education access inequality. If we want to combat that, if we want to create sustainable solutions, we need to understand what that even means. Why does fossil fuel emission contribute to an increased greenhouse gas effect? What does that mean for our environmental systems? What does that mean for our water, for our pollinators, for our food, for our healthcare infrastructure? If we want to create change, if we want to create solutions, we need to understand the foundational concepts of the global Earth system, how that supports our society, and how we can effectively create solutions. My name's Sami Asad. I'm Professor of Sustainability and Innovation at Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences. If you're interested in understanding how you can contribute to the sustainable transformation of society, have a look at the links for the courses in our website, and thank you very much for watching.