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Careers in Climate Change
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Today, you can actually make money and help the planet. This is because climate change is now recognized by governments ...
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Today, you can actually make money and help the planet. This is because
climate change is now recognized by governments and the private sector as a
problem that must be confronted, and many industries need experts to help
reduce their carbon footprint and their energy costs.
American Fulbright scholar Alexis Ringwald is working on renewable energy at
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi under Rajendra
Pachauri, head of the United Nations InterÂgovernmental Panel on Climate
Change that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.? Before coming to India,
Ringwald earned an interdisciplinary master's degree in environmental
management from Yale University in Connecticut.
"People ask me, 'What are you going to do with that degree!'" Ringwald says.
"I tell them that anyone who gets a degree combining environmental science
or technology with business will find many opportunities these
days."?Ringwald is looking for, and will most likely find, a position with a
large corporate green team, a venture capital fund or a clean energy
entrepreneur.
Neeraj Doshi, from Kota, Rajasthan, recently returned from the United States
with a master's degree in environmental policy from the Fletcher School at
Tufts University in Massachusetts. He leads the Artha Initiative in New
Delhi, which invests in sustainable projects in land and water management
and renewable energy. "There are so many careers now in the area of
preventing climate change and the list gets longer day by day as we hit the
reality of climate change," says Doshi. "These range from developing energy
friendly technology to conducting public awareness campaigns on individuals'
impact on the climate."
Jobs are opening up across all types of sectors.
"Climate change will affect everyone and everything," says Ringwald. "Water
resourÂces will be affected, the insurance sector will be affected. So will
agriculture companies, farmers and forestry. A lot of jobs will be 'risk
analysts' for all types of sectors."
Here are some of those jobs, many of which didn't exist a few years ago.
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