Employment and development associated with environmental protection and greenhouse gas emission reduction are becoming inevitable trends. Vietnam cannot stand aside and needs to soon complete policy mechanisms to promote green job creation, putting people at the center of sustainable development.
Agriculture is one of the industries that can create many green jobs. Photo: Van Hoc
Realizing the National Strategy
In the goal of sustainable development, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 1658/QD-TTg, dated October 1, 2021, approving the National Strategy on Green Growth for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050 (replacing Decision No. 1393/QD-TTg). Accordingly, the goal of transforming the growth model towards greening economic sectors, applying the circular economic model through the exploitation and economical and efficient use of natural resources and energy based on science and technology, applying digital technology and digital transformation, developing sustainable infrastructure to improve growth quality, promote competitive advantages and reduce negative impacts on the environment.
According to economist Dinh Trong Thinh, when society has many jobs aimed at protecting the environment and reducing energy consumption, it contributes to sustainable development. Mr. Thinh emphasized: "To develop a sustainable economy and green growth, we must have many green jobs and be aware of environmental protection". So what is a green job? According to the Institute of Labor Science and Social Affairs, it is a satisfactory job in economic fields and activities that contribute to environmental conservation and restoration in both traditional fields such as agriculture and manufacturing as well as emerging fields such as renewable energy and efficient energy use. At the business level, green jobs can produce goods and provide services that benefit the environment, such as green buildings or clean transportation.
In the National Strategy on Green Growth, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs is the agency responsible for organizing training of technical human resources in occupations in green economic sectors under its authority; developing and implementing policies to encourage green job creation; developing and implementing social security policies and social assistance for vulnerable groups and subjects affected in the green transition process.
Many experts believe that green growth must be people-centered, helping to reduce human vulnerability to climate change; encourage responsible lifestyles of each individual towards the community and society, orient future generations towards green living culture, forming a civilized, modern society in harmony with nature and the environment.
Encourage green job creation
The erratic developments of extreme weather make humans the first victims. But in reality, it is humans, along with production and labor activities, that have negatively impacted the environment. Therefore, it is necessary to change thinking, change the way of working, and create as many jobs related to environmental protection as possible. Therefore, according to Mr. Ngo Xuan Lieu, Director of the National Center for Employment Services (Department of Employment, Ministry of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs), it is necessary to train officials in the sector on integrating green growth goals into the development of vocational training policies; train and foster a team of teachers and vocational education managers with sufficient knowledge and skills on greening vocational education, organizing training in green occupations for the economy; organizing support for training technical human resources in occupations in the green economic sector: environmental services (wastewater, waste), renewable energy, etc.
According to Mr. Ngo Xuan Lieu, in the coming time, it is necessary to deploy and apply green job models, job models responding to climate change; research and evaluate the level of impact and influence of climate change on employment according to the updated national scenario.
Sharing the same view, Ms. Nguyen Thanh Huong, National Human Resources Director, ManpowerGroup Vietnam, said that the demand for green jobs is increasingly receiving great attention from employees. This is clearly shown through the job search towards green businesses of candidates. "Green jobs and green skills are essentially the daily knowledge, behaviors and conduct when we do our jobs but towards protecting the environment," Ms. Huong emphasized.
To have green thinking and more green jobs in the future, according to Dr. Nguyen Quynh Hoa (National Economics University), Vietnam must increase awareness of green jobs. To do this, we need to unify and understand the concepts of green jobs that meet international standards and are suitable for the country's socio-economic development situation. The concepts need to be legalized in official documents and widely disseminated in society and to all people; to continue promoting green jobs in the economy, it is necessary to ensure satisfactory employment conditions in economic sectors. Accordingly, production sectors in the economy continue to monitor and evaluate working conditions for workers, ensuring that workers work in safe conditions, have labor contracts and have higher incomes than low incomes.
Many experts recommend that there should be a policy to support the transition of workers from informal to formal jobs. In Vietnam, the proportion of agricultural workers is quite high, this is also a labor force without labor relations, low income and unsatisfactory working conditions. Therefore, there should be a mechanism to support and facilitate businesses and organizations to formalize their activities in agriculture and use workers in this field like other industries. However, the low level of workers is also a challenge for workers to have satisfactory jobs, so workers also need to actively participate in training to meet market needs.
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