The top peak bodies for the renewables sector have estimated that Australia needs 2 million new jobs to reach "net zero" by 2050.
If Australia is going to stick to its word and become a "net-zero nation" within the next 27 years, it's got a serious staffing problem.
Martine had spent her career working in the high-flying world of fashion and publicity, until one day she woke up and felt the need to leave the world of marketing."It wasn't interesting to me anymore."Trading the world of fashion for the farm and field, she is one of the thousands of Australians who have reskilled into "clean economy jobs".
They say the lower target of 43 per cent less emissions by 2030 will still need 200,000 people to change jobs to make it happen. Become an insulator, she said, praising the work that they do to improve energy efficiency in Aussie homes.With hot, confined spaces and labourers wages, not all insulators have it easy.
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