Closing the Sustainability Skills Gap: Helping businesses move from pledges to progress

This report from Microsoft can help you understand the need for sustainability knowledge and skills in the workforce and how to develop them. Part one outlines Microsoft’s perspective on the scale of the sustainability skills gap, and part two highlights businesses' needs related to workforce sustainability identified through interviews and surveys with large companies. The key findings include the need for basic sustainability fluency for all workers. Part three outlines recommendations for developing sustainability skills based on three key actions: 1) mapping needed skills and knowledge to sustainability jobs; 2) investing in upskilling today’s workforce; and 3) building the sustainability talent pipeline through education systems. Each action is supported by a series of specific recommendations. This resource will be most useful to HR and sustainability practitioners.