Green Workforce Shortfall Risks Derailing India’s Net-Zero Targets

Indian institutions offering energy-related programmes, like the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies and Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, remain focused on fossil fuel technologies, mirroring a universal reality: Nearly 70% of the 6142 global universities offering energy-related programmes worldwide, prioritise non-renewable energy over sustainability. Result? Parched pipelines of people skilled in critical sustainability domains like green chemistry, climate modelling, and greenhouse gas accounting. Training in supplementary skills, such as programme design, marketing and consulting—essential for scaling green solutions—also languishes. Santhosh Jayaram, sustainability advisor at HCLTech., sums up the problem. “Higher education curricula have not evolved to include sustainability. Even in business schools, sustainability is often an elective, not a core subject.”

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