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Friday February 2 2024, 12:30pm GMT

How do we create a green jobs revolution?

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Solar panel installers, architects, environmental scientists, recycling coordinators, wind turbine engineers, geologists, project managers, electric vehicle manufacturers – these are just a small subset of the countless jobs connected to the green revolution. For renewable energy to be a sustainable part of our lives, we need to ensure it offers both economic growth and climate security. How do we ensure the social and economic benefits of clean energy are available to all, and not just those at the top of the food chain? How can the public and private sectors work together to encourage people to work in green energy? What are the best ways to increase investment in green jobs? And is it possible for us to create an economy in which the health of the planet and the wellbeing of its inhabitants is a priority and profit isn’t the only goal? 

To answer all these questions and more we will be bringing together a panel of expert speakers to discuss their plans for creating economic growth and job opportunities within the green economy. ScottishPower Strategic Resourcing Manager Madeline McCreanor will be joined by Sam Alvis, Director of Energy at policy and insights firm Public First, and Shaun Spiers, Executive Director at the environmental think tank Green Alliance in a live panel discussion, hosted by journalist and broadcaster Kamal Ahmed. 

Event Name

How do we create a green jobs revolution?

Speakers

  • Sam Alvis

    Director at Public First in the Energy and Environment

  • Madeline McCreanor

    Strategic Resourcing Manager at ScottishPower

  • Shaun Spiers

    Executive director of Green Alliance

Chair

  • Kamal Ahmed

    Journalist, author and former BBC News Editorial Director

Speakers are subject to change.

Location
  • Online event
Time
  • Friday 2 February 2024
  • 12:30pm to 1:30pm GMT

Speakers

Speakers

Sam Alvis

Director at Public First in the Energy and Environment

Director at Public First in the Energy and Environment team and author of the climate and energy newsletter Election Energy. He is also an Associate Fellow in Green Industrial Policy at the progressive think-tank IPPR. Previously he has worked in policy roles at the Green Alliance, Tony Blair Institute, and the Wellcome Trust, as well as various positions for the Labour Party.

Madeline McCreanor

Strategic Resourcing Manager at ScottishPower

Strategic Resourcing Manager at ScottishPower. She leads and delivers ScottishPower’s Strategic Workforce planning framework and approach which identifies skills and resource gaps and priorities to support the business, and previously spent four years working in Iberdrola’s global offshore business. An Australian expat, she spent the first ten years of her career working for McDonald’s before working in higher education in Australia and the UK.   

Shaun Spiers

Executive director of Green Alliance

Executive director of Green Alliance. Prior to joining Green Alliance in June 2017, he was chief executive of CPRE, the countryside charity, for 13 years. From 1994 to 1999, he was MEP for London South East, serving on the European Parliament’s Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee. Shaun chairs the board of Greener UK, a coalition of 12 environmental groups set up in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit referendum. As chair of Greener UK, he sits on the government’s Strategic Trade Advisory Group. His book, How to build houses and save the countryside, was published by Policy Press in March 2018.  
Chair

Kamal Ahmed

Journalist, author and former BBC News Editorial Director

Journalist who has been Editorial Director of BBC News and BBC Economics Editor. He has also held senior roles at The Telegraph Group, The Observer and The Guardian. He recently co-founded The News Movement, a start-up dedicated to tackling misinformation. He is the author of The Life and Times of a Very British Man.

Speakers are subject to change.