Climate Change Survey Assesses Workforce Needs
The National Academy of Sciences’ recent climate change findings and call to limit carbon emissions underscore the value of a just-launched survey assessing the workforce that monitors and measures greenhouse gas, according to survey co-sponsor Sequence Staffing, a leading executive search firm in the climate change field for more than 15 years.
Sequence and the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute last week launched their second international survey, “The 2010 Greenhouse Gas/Climate Change Workforce Needs Assessment Survey.” The survey asks leading climate change professionals to evaluate their industry’s ability to meet increasing global demands for professional greenhouse gas monitoring. Results of the survey are expected to be released by late summer.
The National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, which led the study, on May 19 announced the need for greenhouse gas limits in major findings from the first three of five congressionally requested reports on climate change, together known as “America’s Climate Choices.” The released reports cite strong scientific evidence that climate change is caused in large part by human activity and poses significant risk.
The Research Council and the National Academy of Sciences are two of four independent nonprofits known as the National Academies that bring together committees of experts in all areas of scientific and technological endeavor to address critical national issues and provide policy advice for the federal government and the public.
Neither Sequence nor the institute advocate a national policy, but they both hope their latest effort to poll climate change professionals about the needs within the greenhouse gas workforce will provide further insight concerning industry challenges, including increased global demands, professional training and standardization of monitoring, said Sequence Vice President Frank DeSafey.
“Our focus is to acquire valuable data on the industry to better understand and quantify today’s complex needs for trained personnel measuring emissions and managing related climate change data throughout the world,” DeSafey said.
The latest survey follows “The 2009 Greenhouse Gas & Climate Change Workforce Needs Assessment,” in which the climate change experts polled indicated the world’s carbon trading markets remain very vulnerable to accounting scandals like those symbolized by Enron, WorldCom and Tyco. About 3,200 industry professionals completed the 2009 survey.
According to last year’s survey results, about 77 percent of respondents also predicted that greenhouse gas accounting and management will emerge as a professional discipline in high demand, much as the information technology industry did in the 1980s.
“The need for expertly trained, skilled and high-level personnel in this field is absolutely critical today if we are to successfully meet the challenges and concerns expressed by the international community in this survey,” DeSafey said of the 2009 findings.
The new survey includes questions asking climate change professionals to rate their knowledge of technical greenhouse gas issues and the breadth, depth, sophistication and availability of greenhouse gas management training and curriculum.
The survey also asks the experts to rate the general public’s perception and understanding of the science behind greenhouse gas and climate change-related issues.
Among the more than 10,000 industry professionals asked to participate are Nobel laureates and other leading scientists, consultants, gas emissions accounting personnel and economists for clients requiring technical expertise in the climate change field.
The Greenhouse Gas Management Institute, a registered nonprofit organization, trains and networks a global community of experts that account, audit and manage GHG emissions, working on all aspects of climate change, based on world-class training and professional standards. Based in Washington, D.C., the institute partnered with Sequence Staffing because of the firm’s extensive experience recruiting scientific and technical professionals in the climate change field.
Sequence is a premier executive search and staffing firm for the environmental, climate change, engineering and construction fields, the core industries that build and maintain the world’s infrastructure, natural resources and environment.
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