Transformative Education and Climate Action: The Case for Green Jobs

November 10, 2025

CUSP fellow Richard Bampfylde authoring new policy report from Ban Ki-Moon Centre for Global Citizens
Oct 2025

https://bankimooncentre.org/our-work/your-future-in-green-jobs/

Launched at the 2025 International Forum on Education for the Post-2030 Agenda, the Ban Ki-Moon Centre for Global Citizens, together with Dubai Cares, Plan International, and Unbounded Associates, presented the policy paper Transformative Education and Climate Action: The Case for Green Jobs.

CUSP fellow Richard Bampfylde served as lead researcher and author, working with BKMC Project Officer Anna Tykhonenko over 18 months of data collection and analysis, including youth mentee focus groups, partner interviews, and online surveys.

The paper is a direct outcome of the Your Future in Green Jobs BKMC Programme, which provides online climate education and practical youth mentorship through ‘SDG Micro-Projects’. It was officially launched in Salzburg, Austria, on 30 October 2025, at the International Forum on Education for the Post-2030 Agenda.

Insights from CUSP research, such as the Shifting the Rhetoric project, has informed the report. The paper aims to inspire young people to pursue positive social, environmental, and economic initiatives while influencing policymakers toward more sustainable perspectives and behaviours.

Call to action

Specifically, the policy recommendations paper calls on governments, educators, employers, and civil society to align policy, pedagogy, and opportunity to close the systemic learning-to-action gap, thereby enabling millions of young people to embark on green careers by 2030.

It emphasises that every job has the potential to be a green job and that youth must be empowered with knowledge, skills, and networks. Through research, advocacy, funding, and reporting, youth leadership towards 2030 and realising the SDGs can continue to be harnessed. In doing so, securing a just, prosperous, and sustainable economy and society within planetary boundaries for present and future generations is within reach.

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