Intergenerational Green Jobs Summit

Purpose: To assist the youth, people who have been systemically marginalized from the workforce and people transitioning from the fossil fuel industry enter and secure prevailing wage and or union green jobs in order to protect disadvantaged communities from climate change and meet the mandates of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.

Objective: To hold an interactive green jobs summit connecting job seekers, students and others with green job training opportunities and green job opportunities. We will also highlight the projects happening on Long Island driving the demand for workers in the green jobs industry as well as seek to help participants vision new green projects for their own communities.

Audience: Youth, people marginalized from the workforce, people transitioning from the fossil fuel industry, job seekers, employers, climate justice advocates, community visionaries

Summary: The Intergenerational Green Jobs Summit will seek to make the green industry accessible to people living in disadvantaged communities. This summit will focus on bringing trainers, union leaders, workforce development and community visionaries together with workers to map out clear pathways to a just transition on Long Island.   We will partner with community-based organizations, regional organizations, labor boards, municipalities, universities and the Department of Labor, Office of Just Energy Transition and other state agencies to deliver this summit.   A successful summit will include:

• Engaged audience: the audience are youth mainly between the ages of 16-26, workers who have been marginalized and workers transitioning out of the fossil fuel industry. Looking to host 20-200 people

• Education: Piquing the interest of workers to the green industry, which includes learning about climate change and the climate law. Learning what employers are looking for, community visionaries are looking for and what workers are looking for.

• Training: Sharing opportunities for enrolling in open green job training, which can include climate advocacy and education training, solar, wind, battery storage, composting, and other green industries.

• Employment: Making real connections to green job employment, which can include completing employment applications.  

• Projects: Workers, community visionaries and state agencies connecting to take next steps to develop green projects, which includes identifying funding sources.  

• Advocacy: identify what resources do we need to push for.  

• Networking: Meeting, engaging and having discussions with people in the green job industry, which includes working together in break out sessions, tabling and breaking bread with each other.