Updated August 2025
Topics covered include:
- Trends and reports on green careers
- Green career counselling and decent work
- Educational programs available in Canada for green employment
- Impact of climate change on careers
- Green careers and future labour market
- Career challenges and opportunities led by climate change
- and more
Abdallah, A. K., Ismail, L. S., & Alkaabi, A. M. (2025). Green careers: Educating for the future of sustainability. In Legal Frameworks and Educational Strategies for Sustainable Development (pp. 337-366). IGI Global.
Andrews, E. (2019, May 30). Should climate change be my new career calling? Grist.
Baruah, B. (2018, July 2). How to promote gender equity in the green economy. Research Outreach.
Chang, Y., & Mann, A. (2024). Enhancing green career guidance systems for sustainable futures. OECD Education Working Papers, 318.
Delauzun, A. (2023, February 28). Green careers and impartiality: Framing the debate with socio-political ideologies. Critical Perspectives on Career and Career Guidance.
Deitche, S. M. (2010). Green collar jobs: Environmental careers for the 21st century. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Di Fabio, A., & Bucci, O. (2016). Green positive guidance and green positive life counseling for decent work and decent lives: Some empirical results. Frontiers in Psychology.
Dunlevy, L. (2019, June 4). Green jobs and new technology: A look at Biden and Warren’s latest climate plans. Pacific Standard.
Evans, J. (2015, December 8). What impact is climate change having on jobs? World Economic Forum.
Government of Canada. (n.d.). Careers at environment and climate change Canada.
Grant, K. (2024). How green is your practice? A process for auditing and reimagining career guidance practice for a greener world. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 53(1), 89-104.
Hein, C.J., Ten Hoeve, J.E., Gopalakrishnan, S., Livneh, B., Adams, H.D. , Marino, E.K., Weiler, C.S. (2018). Overcoming early career barriers to interdisciplinary climate change research. WIREs Climate Change, 9(5).
Hooley, T. (2024). Career and sustainability. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 53(1), 3-7.
Hooley, T., Bakke, I.B., Casanova, M.L., Kavková, E., Košťálová, H., Ostroha, L., Šprlák, T. & Wrzosek, M. (2024). Practitioners’ perspectives on green guidance: An international survey. Exploring Green Guidance.
Hopner, V., Carr, S. C., & Wloch, J. (2024). Sustainable careers within greening economies. Australian Journal of Career Development, 33(3), 286-293.
Hopner, V., Carr, S. C., & Matuschek, I. (2025). Green collar work: Implications for career development. Australian Journal of Career Development, 34(2), 124-133.
Hughes, D., Warhurst, C., & Duarte, M. E. (2021). Decent work, inclusion and sustainability: A new era lies ahead. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 49(2), 145-152.
Irving, B. A., & Liévano, B. M. (2019). Ecojustice, equity and ethics: challenges for educational and career guidance. Revista Fuentes, 21(2), 253-263.
Kane, J.W., Muro, M., & Tomer, A. (2019, January 25). The Green New Deal promises jobs, but workers need to be ready to fill them. Brookings.
Kavková, E., & Šprlák, T. (2024). Reflections on ethical challenges in green guidance. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 53(1), 80-88.
Krasna, H., Czabanowska, K., Jiang, S., Khadka, S., Morita, H., Kornfeld, J., & Shaman, J. (2020). The future of careers at the intersection of climate change and public health: What can job postings and an employer survey tell us? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(4).
Lanzi, E., Seitz, H., & Borgonovi, F. (2023, August 2). How the need to mitigate climate change will affect careers and what to do about it. OECD Blogs
Lehr, U., & Kevwe, P. (2024, January 18). What we’re reading about climate and jobs. World Bank Blogs.
LinkedIn. (2023). Global green skills report 2023.
Maggi, S. (2019, January 9). Career guidance for kids is our best hope for climate change. The Conversation.
Martinez-Fernandez, C., Hinojosa, C., & Miranda, G. (2010). Green jobs and skills: The local labour market implications of addressing climate change. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
McClure, L.A., LeBlanc, W.G., Fernandez, C.A., Fleming, L.E., Lee, D.J., Moore, K.J., & Caban-Martinez, A.J. (2017). Green collar workers: An emerging workforce in the environmental sector. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
McMahon, M., & Knight, E. (2024). Sustainability: Implications for career development. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 1-18.
McMahon, M., & Watson, M. (2020). Career counselling and sustainable decent work: Relationships and tensions. South African Journal of Education, 40.
Međugorac, V., Šverko, I., & Babarović, T. (2020). Careers in sustainability: An application of Social Cognitive Career Theory. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 20(3), 477-499.
Moncrieft, A. (2024, November 11). 20 essential skills for green careers in a changing climate. DoSomething.
Montt, G., Fraga, F., & Harsdorff, M. (2018). The future of work in a changing natural environment: Climate change, degradation and sustainability. International Labour Organization.
Natarajan, N., & Parsons, L. (Eds.). (2021). Climate change in the global workplace: Labour, adaptation and resistance (1st ed.). Routledge.
Newman, K. L. (2011). Sustainable careers. Organizational Dynamics, 40(2), 136.
North, M. (2023, October 19). 3 ways the climate crisis is impacting jobs and workers. World Economic Forum.
Nota, L., Soresi, S., Di Maggio, I., Santilli, S., & Ginevra, M. C. (2020). Sustainable development, career counselling and career education. Springer.
Nuttall, B. (2024). Green career education and guidance through the perceptions and experiences of career practitioners in English secondary schools. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 53(1), 105-121.
Orso, L., Sleeman, C., Gallagher, L., Kerle, I., & Sissons, A. (n.d.). How green is your job, really? Nesta.
Peach, S. (2021, May 5). Which climate change jobs will be in high demand in the future? Yale Climate Connections.
Plant, P. (2014). Green guidance. In Handbook of career development: International perspectives (pp. 309-316). Springer.
Plan International Team. (2022, August 15). Young people unprepared for jobs in the “green economy” – global survey. Plan International.
Poschen, P. (2017). Decent work, green jobs and the sustainable economy: Solutions for climate change and sustainable development. Routledge.
Rochat, S. (2024). “Green guidance”: which interventions for which problems? International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 1-22.
Salary.com Staff. (2018). Going green: 11 awesome earth-friendly jobs. Salary.com.
Šapale, S., Iliško, D., & Badjanova, J. (2021). Sustainable career guidance during the pandemic: Building pathways into a ‘new normal’. Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 12(1), 140-150.
Sawit, A. (2017, September 7). 5 growing careers in the green job market. U.S. Green Building Council.
Scully-Russ, E. (2013). Are green jobs career pathways a path to a 21st-century workforce development system? Adult Learning, 24(1), 6-13.
Stafford, S. L. (2025). How is climate change impacting the educational choices and career plans of undergraduates? Sustainability, 17(14).
Vanzella Yang, A., & Yang, B. (2024). Hiring green: An analysis of the demand for green skills in Canada. The Conference Board of Canada.
Villarino, M.E. (2016, March 15). Career in climate change: What you need to know. Devex.
Watters, L. (2018). How to build your expertise: Climate change. Devex.
White, D. (2017, October 23). Climate change driving future job markets. The Ledger.
Wyne, J. (2024, December 12). Climate change and jobs: How a warming planet affects labor markets. Forbes.
Ressources Françaises:
Aubouin, A.-V., Bach, V., Akanza, G.-S., & Durand, A. (2025). Accompagnement vers l’emploi et transition écologique. Gouvernement français.
Bachelot, M. (2023). Comment déf inir et analyser les «emplois verts»? Une revue de la littérature. Socio-économie du travail, (13), 15-50.
Baghioni, L. & Moncel, N. (2022). La transition écologique au travail: Emploi et formation face au défi environnemental. Céreq Bref, 423(7), 1-4.
Batut, C. (2024, 17 mai). Comment mieux accompagner la transition environnementale sur le marché du travail? Le Monde.
Benhamou, S., & Flamand, J. (2023). Le travail à l’épreuve du changement climatique. France Stratégie.
Dekeister, I., & Lapie, K. (2023). Guide pour une orientation dans un monde durable. Euroguidance.
Lecoq-Le Borgne, G. (2024, 31 mai). Objectifs verts, occasions grandioses : prévisions sur la main-d’œuvre environnementale au Canada d’ici 2033. Eco Canada.
Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE). (2023, 14 mars). Agir sur l’emploi, les compétences et les disparités régionales est vital pour la transition verte [communiqué].
Organisation internationale du Travail. (2025). Promouvoir les emplois et les compétences pour une économie verte : un recueil de pratiques prometteuses.
Vernède, S., Trzcinski, J., & Pietruszka, M. (2024). Les entreprises font-elles pousser les emplois verts? Le Conseil de l’information sur le marché du travail.
Wakim, N. (2023, 27 juillet). Quels sont les métiers les plus exposés au réchauffement climatique? Le Monde.