Recruiting foreign workers with green skills is a valuable policy tool for European countries which struggle to meet their decarbonisation goals, but the same skills may be needed in other sectors, said the Center for Global Development (CGD). In a paper, the researchers aimed to put a number on the decarbonisation benefits of additional workers with green skills, focussing on Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom. These countries face a green skills shortage and rely to varying degrees on immigration to meet climate targets.

Adding a single additional worker to fill an existing skills gap, like a heating technician installing heat pumps, could reduce emissions by more than one thousand tonnes of CO2 over a period of nine years, the report said.

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