Our planet is currently experiencing real effects from climate change, but it is subject to certain changes in various areas of work and the skills we will need to deal with those changes.

Over the past few years, the proliferation of large amounts of gases, especially carbon dioxide, has trapped temperatures in the lower atmosphere of the Earth's atmosphere, which has caused a significant rise in temperatures, increasing the threats to human health and increasing the risk of human life generally on the ground. It is expected to worsen in the future. Global warming has caused more than 150,000 deaths. Children and the elderly in developing and poor cities and arid desert areas are the most affected by the risks of climate change that will be the subject of this article.





Impact of human activities on climate change





When we think about climate change, most of us think of environmental consequences only, such as rising sea levels, rising temperatures, melting glaciers. Elsewhere in the world, such as in South Florida or the mountains of Switzerland, these transformations already affect people's daily lives.

For example, in Miami, water treatment plants are being renovated at the highest level, as are wave hurdles, and parking is now built with a possible increase in sea level along with the entrance of the flood.

But experts say these effects are just the tip of an iceberg. Climate change affects everything around us, from the banking sector to health institutions.

As a result, the planning officers in the local city councils do not have to face the risk of changing their structure for future plans. Financial policy makers, farmers, civil engineers, doctors, and many other businesses and jobs are also likely to be affected by climate change. This means that there may be other consequences of climate change, which we often overlook.





Everyone will have to understand climate change in the same way that everyone in business knows how to use social media today. Because it is difficult to know how serious the effects of climate change are, it is also difficult to know how much impact on many actions and areas. But there are changes we can already see. Climate-related disasters such as drought and hurricanes, for example, have a major impact on the future of economic interests and insurance companies, who pay millions to damage people and their property.





At the same time, a complex global retail system may also be affected, which means that somewhere in the world, a disturbance can definitely affect other places. It was displayed in Japan in April 2016 after the earthquake, which destroyed many factories related to the famous Toyota Motor Company, which prompted the company to suspend production.

The health sector can be affected to a great extent, as well as affecting clean water and food. Increased temperature enhances the likelihood of exposure to diseases such as malaria and dengue fever in some poor areas. The new Zika epidemic can be developed by more hot weather patterns. The World Health Organization predicts that between 2030 and 2050, climate change will kill nearly 250,000 people around the world.





The previous year, the World Economic Report compiled by the World Economic Forum, which gathered assessments from 750 scientists and experts, concluded that one of the top five risks arising out of the world is a weapon of mass destruction. The other four risks are all related to climate. These risks include a dramatic change in the weather, water crisis, major natural disasters, and failure to reduce and adapt climate change.

“Despite the magnitude of the challenges, some employees are trained to deal with different climate patterns in their plans for the future. We do not have the right people who have the right skills. For example, we are working and do not take into account the heavy flood of rain, or the six-month drought but we only expect to have regular and small quantities of rainwater, so our systems are not equipped to deal with heavy rainfall,” said Daniel Krieger, executive director of the Association of Climate Change Officers, a non-profit organization.





“When these patterns change, you need a trained workforce to deal with such changes. Unfortunately, our civilian engineers have not been trained to deal with climate change in their courses as well as planning officials in local city councils, city and neighborhood managers. None of them received the appropriate knowledge about this," Mr. Krieger added in his statement.

So far, ten more desirable skills remain in the candidates for new jobs, according to a data analysis conducted by LinkedIn, all related to technology, such as cloud computing, e-marketing, knowledge-based search engines, and web design. While some say that modern technology has caused a major change in the workforce today, climate change will also make a big difference in the labor force tomorrow.





The sectors which have seen in recent developments are the energy sector. According to the data provided by the search engine "Indeed", the list of vacancies, in the first quarter of 2014 in the UK, the number of new jobs in the renewable energy sector is approximately one-third as the number of jobs in the energy sector. In 2017, this number has increased almost halfway.

Although these figures are only for Britain, the shift in the renewable energy sector can also be seen worldwide, said Tara M. Sinclair, a professor of economics at George Washington University.

Several factors contributed to this shift, including low oil prices and declining competitive advantage of natural gas. In the same period from 2015 to 2018, the number of new jobs in the oil and coal sectors in Britain fell from 66 percent of total energy sector jobs to less than 47 percent.





This is also due to the concern of both employers and employees to reduce emissions and reduce the impact of climate change, Sinclair says. After oil prices fell for several years, the share of jobs in the oil sector declined and the number of those wishing to work in that sector declined.