“Green Skills” Training
Fully-funded, accredited courses to help you decarbonise your workplace – or to help you to change to a “green” career – are available to working people in Wales through the Green PLA scheme.
Green PLA courses are available to everyone who works in Wales, with no salary cap. Other PLA courses have different eligibility criteria including salary caps.
Further education providers have lists of Green PLA courses and qualifications, locations and start dates on their websites. Many are delivered online so you may not need to be local to the college provider to attend:
NPT College Group (no course list available, register to discuss needs)
Eco-education
Wales is fortunate to be home to some of the world’s most progressive and forward thinking educational institutions, teaching the practical skills and theory we need to build a zero carbon, regenerative and sustainable society and economy.
Black Mountains College – Talgarth, Brecon
- Undergraduate Degree – BA (Hons) Sustainable Futures: Arts, Ecology and Systems Change
- FE – NVQs in Regenerative Horticulture, Coppicing and Greenwood Trades, Nature Recovery
- Short Courses
Centre for Alternative Technology – Machynlleth
- Post-graduate courses
- Short Courses
- Zero Carbon Britain CPD courses
Online Courses
Upcoming UNISON Cymru Wales Webinars
- Climate & Just Transition Awareness (Knowledge and activism)
- Understanding Climate Anxiety (Health & Wellbeing)
- Disinformation, Misinformation & Climate Crisis (Digital Information Literacy…
…and more to come
Too Hot, Too Cold – TUC Education Online Course on workplace health and safety
Centre for Alternative Technology – Zero Carbon Britain courses for local authority and housing staff (fees apply which may be funded by our WULF Grant for Qualifications Learning Grant)
Centre for Sustainable Healthcare – Short Courses (fees apply which may be funded by our WULF Grant for Qualifications Learning Grant)
FutureLearn – Nature & Environment Courses
UNISON Cymru Wales’ “Caring for our Climate” Webinars (2022)
Post Carbon Institute – “Think Resilience” free online course
TUC Webinar on Protecting Workers from Extreme Temperatures
Articles, Podcasts & Videos
Naomi Klein – Care & Repair (Dissent Magazine)
Emily Kenway – Transforming care must be central to any bold vision of a greener future (The Guardian)
Dirty Energy: Solar Panels and Forced Labour (UNISON Magazine)
Who Cares Wins Podcast – Lilly Cole
Reports & Research
UNISON/Leeds University – UNISON Members, Climate, the Green Economy & Just Transition (2022)
Oxfam – Caring in a changing climate: Centering care work in climate action (2022)
Towards a Feminist Green New Deal for the UK: A Paper for the WBG on a Gender-Equal Economy, Maeve Cohen & Sherilyn MacGregor (2020)
The Century Foundation: Redefining Green Jobs for a Sustainable Economy
Climate Change Committee – Local Authorities and the 6th Carbon Budget
Welsh Doughnut (Oxfam Cymru 2020)
EPSU Going Public – Democratic Energy
Clean Dirty Energy – Sourcing solar energy without Uyghur forced labour (UNISON 2022)
Building Circularity into our Economies through Sustainable Procurement (UNEP 2018)
Showyourstripes.org – Visualise Global Warming
Trade Union Resources
UNISON – Green bargaining and negotiating in the workplace
the role of the environment rep
Event (videos): EUTUI: A Just Transition Beyond Growth (Dec 2022)
Welsh Public Service Strategies
Welsh Government’s Climate Emergency Declaration
Welsh Local Authorities’ Climate Emergency Declarations
NHS Wales Decarbonisation Strategy Delivery Plan (2021)
WLGA Decarbonisation Action Plans (currently being updated)
Decarbonising Social Care in Wales (2022)
Beyond Recycling – Welsh Government Circular Economy Plan (2021)
CAPE Local Information on Climate Change (Including Local Authority Action Plans)
WRAP Circular Economy Resources for Local Authorities
Organisations
International Trade Union Conference: Just Transition Centre
Future Generations Commissioner (Wellbeing of Future Generations Act)
Ellen Macarthur Foundation (Circular economy)
Wales Net Zero Challenge Group
