Work Green

The objective of the Green Business Survey was to engage businesses involved in renewable energy (RE), Energy Efficiency (EE), or Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) activities and to assess and identify potential job creation targets, skills needs, and workforce adjustment issues.

The Green Economy provides both a challenge and an opportunity: an opportunity to accelerate job growth in industries that are rapidly growing, and a challenge to anticipate, strategize, and implement collective labour force measures to ensure a balance between workforce demand and supply.

Social Enterprise refers to organizations with primarily social or environmental objectives where surpluses are reinvested into the business or used for community benefit. These ventures provide goods and services to the market for the purpose of creating a blended return on investment (both financial and social/environmental). Rather than maximizing shareholder value, the main aim of a social enterprise is to generate revenue to further their social or environmental goals.

Social enterprise has been embraced by many not-for-profit and charitable organizations in the social services sector, but more and more it is seen as a viable option for for-profit businesses to make positive contributions to the environment.