{"id":555,"date":"2008-05-03T06:54:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T06:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/climate-changes-gold-rush\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:22","slug":"climate-changes-gold-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/climate-changes-gold-rush\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change&#8217;s gold rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;I think in the future graduates, when they make a decision about whether to join that company or not, will be looking at what sort of a carbon footprint an organisation has.&#8221;<\/em> (John Vines, CEO Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia)<\/p>\n<p>It is no surprise, considering the enormity of the task, that the science of climate change has become a kind of gold rush for upcoming professionals and prospective college students who want to enter the field, as work opportunities and consultancies can only grow. Will climate change advisors become a staple of companies&#8217; pay rolls just like public relations officers have become over the last few decades? Quite possibly, at least in Australia.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The country, which faces huge challenges ahead because of its dry climate, is seeing the private and public sector falling over themselves to &#8220;appoint people with the knowledge and skills to advise on what is becoming a central public policy debate&#8221;, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,23631134-5010800,00.html\">The Australian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd took over last year one of his first decisions was to appoint a Minister for Climate Change, an initiative that should inspire every other country, especially the United States, the biggest polluter in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The article mentions last year&#8217;s opening of the Climate Change Research Centre, which has a staff of 35 involved in &#8220;examining the biophysical side of climate change&#8221;. Staff numbers at the centre could double over the next couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>The private sector is also providing huge opportunities for climate change professionals as organizations become aware of the need to gauge the environmental impact of their actions.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think in the future graduates, when they make a decision about whether to join that company or not, will be looking at what sort of a carbon footprint an organisation has.&#8221; (John Vines, CEO Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia) It is no surprise, considering the enormity of the task, that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9875,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/9875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}