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OECD Skills Outlook 2023

Skills for a Resilient Green and Digital Transition

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Skills are vital for building resilient economies and societies. By helping individuals develop a diverse range of skills and empowering them to apply these skills effectively, skills policies play a crucial role in responding to emerging threats, such as environmental degradation and harmful applications of technologies used to collect, generate, and exchange information. This edition of the Skills Outlook highlights the importance of supporting individuals in acquiring a wide range of skills, at varying levels of proficiency, to promote economic and social resilience. Additionally, the report acknowledges the role of attitudes and dispositions in enabling skills development and effective skills use. It also emphasises the need for policy makers to monitor the costs associated with policies aimed at promoting the green and digital transition, and how the transition affects inequalities. Training opportunities that respond to emerging labour market needs and efforts to facilitate their uptake can promote a just and inclusive green and digital transition. In turn, education systems that equip young people not only with skills but attitudes to manage change can ensure that the green and digital transition is sustainable in the longer term.

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Preparing for a changing world: Promoting key skills to adapt to climate change through education and training

The COVID‑19 pandemic provided important lessons on how education can be reorganised and learning supported in extreme conditions, highlighting the importance of physical infrastructures, such as indoor air quality, and the inadequacy of these in many countries. The chapter provides evidence on the effects of extreme temperatures and air pollution on skills acquisition, and on the effects of environmental conditions on individuals' willingness to prioritise environmental protection. The chapter also makes the case that adapting to climate change will require developing a wide range of skills, including physical skills. To ensure that individuals and societies are better equipped with the set of skills needed to adapt to environmental changes, the chapter suggests preparing learning environments for extreme weather events, investing in green infrastructure and sustainable practices, and considering the differential effects of environmental conditions on the acquisition of skills.

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