Earlier this year, Green Horizons launched, aiming to connect 10,000 displaced people and host community members with jobs critical to the green transition. Since that time, we have been refining Green Horizon’s mission, including at a recent Commitment Summit in Venice. We are now excited to announce Green Horizon’s focus going forward, involving supporting green-skilled displaced people.

Green Horizons' Objectives

Green Horizons is an initiative to underwrite and accelerate green skills mobility programs, hosted by Talent Beyond Boundaries. We seek to power the climate transition with the skills of displaced talent to the mutual benefit of the environment, employers, workers, and their communities. We promote a field that is dedicated to expanding safe and legal pathways to decent work for refugees and others in need of international protection, providing upskilling, and matching talent with the needs of employers.

Green Horizons has two broad objectives:

  1. Mobilize climate capital for green skills mobility projects. We will blend philanthropic, public, and catalytic investment and deploy capital to green skills mobility projects ready to scale.
  2. Make the case for green skills mobility. We plan to highlight the urgent need to address labour scarcity, which is holding back the green transition, and we will highlight high-quality impact analyses of successful mobility programs and how they facilitate a rapid green transition.

Green Horizons supports both projects designed for refugees and those that include refugees within broader training and mobility programmes, such as projects for nationals of countries of first asylum, supporting green-skilled displaced people.

Green Horizons' Governance

A core project team comprising staff from Talent Beyond Boundaries, the Center for Global Development, and The Migration Opportunity will lead Green Horizons. It will be supported by a steering committee that meets six to eight times per year.

In addition, there are several organizations and stakeholders who supported Green Horizons at recent summits in Bellagio and Venice. We are extremely excited to work with these organizations to support the activities and objectives of Green Horizons.

Green Horizons' Work Plan to Support Green-Skilled Displaced People

The medium-term objective of Green Horizons is to identify, fund, and scale labour mobility solutions for 10,000 displaced talents who work in building, clean energy, and related infrastructure, effectively supporting green-skilled displaced people in attaining employment which benefits the environment.

Read the full article about supporting green-skilled displaced people by Helen Dempster, David Manicom, Johann Harnoss, Jason Wendle, Elise Shea, and Sorcha O'Callaghan at Center for Global Development.