The UK’s highly-skilled oil and gas workforce must be ‘retrained and redeployed’ to work in low carbon industries, according to advisors.
A new Committee on Climate Change (CCC) report to Parliament has urged the UK Government to take action to upskill North Sea workers to help the country meet its net zero targets and compete in future global markets.
Those who authored the report claim the ability of a decarbonised UK manufacturing sector is dependent on “having a labour force with the requisite skills”, not only in manufacturing products and materials, but also engineering, procurement and construction management.
