Building Canada’s environmental community involves the assistance and support from those working in this dynamic sector.
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The Career Awareness Strategy will support and complement current environmental education initiatives already underway in Canada. We are currently in the research phase of the project, investigating environmental career perceptions of youth, and conducting a national curriculum review of environmental education. Our goal is to work strategically and collaboratively to create innovative tools, programs and campaigns to expose and assist students in exploring career options in the environmental sector.
The Contaminated Sites Action Plan project seeks to support the creation of an efficient work force that will ensure contaminated sites work in Canada is conducted properly and promptly by individuals with the appropriate skills.
The much-talked about “Green Economy” has been used in a variety of contexts and definitions by international, national, and local organizations. ECO Canada is conducting an extensive study to define what the Green Economy really means in a Canadian context and classifying the green jobs that fall under this new regime.
ECO Canada’s Immigrant Bridging Program is the newest initiative aimed to ease the transition of highly qualified newcomers into the Canadian environmental sector to meet the recruitment needs of employers. Many newcomers entering Canada have skills and experience that align with the sector, and so it is imperative to bridge the gap to create the best employment match.
ECO Canada is conducting an Employer Labour Demand study to measure demand for environmental workers in Canada. The overall objective of this Sector Study is to examine the current and future labour requirements and characteristics of environmental employment.
Canada is anticipating a labour shortage mainly due to retirement of baby boomers and a low birthrate in Canada. To remain economically competitive with an efficient labour market, Canada has been taking steps to improve labour mobility both at home and abroad. The objective of the Labour Mobility Study is to verify and address the skills shortages in the environmental sector by investigating reciprocal mobility between Canada and the European Union in related environmental occupations.
In partnership with the Canadian Meteorology and Oceanography Society (CMOS) and Environment Canada, ECO Canada is helping to advance the definition of occupations and construct the foundation for professional certification for the field of meteorology. The initial phase is to document the National Occupational Standards for Canadian meteorological practitioners.
The aim of this national accreditation program is to ensure that post-secondary environmental programs across Canada offer a high level of professional education. This project has been developed to increase student registration in accredited programs, which will help to address the growing labour shortage reported in the environmental sector.
It is being administered with the support of the Canadian College Environmental Network and the Canadian University Environmental Science Network.
The goal of the Solid Waste Management labour market study is to define the scope of environmental employment that exists within the subsector of solid waste management and to identify the specific human resources issues and needs of employees and employers.
The main objective of the study is to document mechanisms to assist Green Building Operators in adapting to the requirements of a sustainably built environment in the commercial and institutional sector, as well as determining how they fit within the scope of green building occupations. This will ensure that they actively participate in the emergence of a new culture of energy conservation in Canadian buildings.