Question · Action Scorecards 2025
Point awarded if the combined authority provides a supplementary employment or careers programme to encourage and promote green jobs.
Activities can include, but not limited to: stand alone websites, funding, or events promoting green careers at schools and colleges .
Green Jobs and Greens Skills are ones that contribute to preserving or restoring the environment. They have a focus on either reducing carbon emissions, improving energy and raw materials efficiency, protecting and restoring nature, minimising waste and pollution, adapting to the effects of climate change or making similar environmental improvements.
Green Jobs and Skills can be in traditional sectors such as manufacturing and construction, or in new, emerging green sectors such as renewable energy and energy efficiency. Sustainability managers in businesses, green transport officers and thermal heating specialists are all examples of green jobs.
Definitions from International Labour Organisation and Friends of the Earth.
Note: “in 2023” counts show how the councils listed below were marked on this question in 2023. This list of councils may be slightly different to the list of councils originally assessed on this question in 2023, due to the creation and abolition of councils between Scorecard years.
| Council | Score | Difference2023 | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Manchester Combined Authority | 1/1 | -- | |
| Liverpool City Region Combined Authority | 1/1 | -- | |
| South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority | 1/1 | -- | |
| Tees Valley Combined Authority | 1/1 | -- | |
| West of England Combined Authority | 1/1 | -- | |
| West Yorkshire Combined Authority | 1/1 | -- | |
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority
| 0/1 | -- | No evidence found |
Greater London Authority
| 0/1 | -- | Evidence doesn't meet criteria |
West Midlands Combined Authority
| 0/1 | ▼ -1 | Evidence doesn't meet criteria |