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This study focused on people in Glasgow with low qualifications, meaning those with at most a lower secondary qualification who experience a high risk of poverty and social exclusion, and explored green job opportunities that exist for them, including those that would require reskilling (training to obtain different skills) or upskilling (training to obtain more advanced skills). In this study (unless stated otherwise), green jobs are understood as jobs in businesses that produce goods or provide services that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources, and green skills denote skills needed to adapt products, services and processes to climate change and the related environmental requirements and regulations. Evidence presented here includes national-level data (where regional and local information was not available) and focuses on data specific to green jobs or people with low qualifications. In Glasgow, green jobs for people with low qualifications are present primarily in the construction, energy, manufacturing, transport and waste management sectors. Several interventions that aimed at developing green skills and helping people into green jobs were identified but only a few explicitly focused on people with low qualifications. Others were open to people who were of work or faced redundancy, had long-term physical and mental health conditions, or were refugees and asylum seekers. Full details can be found in the main report. [For the main report, "Green Jobs and Skills Development for Disadvantaged Groups. Research Report," see ED624858.]

This study focused on people in Edinburgh with low qualifications, meaning those with at most a lower secondary qualification who experience a high risk of poverty and social exclusion, and explored green job opportunities that exist for them, including those that would require reskilling (training to obtain different skills) or upskilling (training to obtain more advanced skills). In this study (unless stated otherwise), green jobs are understood as jobs in businesses that produce goods or provide services that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources, and green skills denote skills needed to adapt products, services and processes to climate change and the related environmental requirements and regulations. Evidence presented here includes national-level data (where regional and local information was not available) and focuses on data specific to green jobs or people with low qualifications. In Edinburgh, the largest potential for green jobs for people with low qualifications exists in construction (and includes occupations such as plasterers, dryliners, glazers, plumbers and heating technicians), in transport (as plant mechanics and fitters) and in manufacturing (as machine and plant operators, and metal and machinery workers). There are only a few interventions aimed at developing green skills for people with low qualifications. Most of these focused on young people. Full details can be found in the main report. [For the main report, "Green Jobs and Skills Development for Disadvantaged Groups. Research Report," see ED624858.]

This study addresses the gap in evidence on employability of people from disadvantaged groups in the context of the greening of the economy. We focus in particular on people with low qualifications (i.e. those with at most a lower secondary qualification (level 2 or below in the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED)). However, when looking at job opportunities for this group, we extend the scope to jobs requiring medium-level (ISCED 4) qualifications (ISCED 4), as these could be accessible for people with low qualifications with additional education, training, or work experience and help them break the cycle of poverty and disadvantage. The study also provides insights about the facilitators and barriers to green employment for other disadvantaged groups, including but not limited to women, young people and others. The study focuses on 10 ten European cities and regions across five European countries -- France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. [Contributions to this report were provided by Giovanni Amodeo, Frederico Cardoso, Sam Cole, Megan Hughes, Giulia Lanfredi, Mafalda Pardal, and Pamina Smith.]