May 15, 2024 Colin A. Young, Statehouse News Bureau
At the Vatican Climate Summit on Wednesday morning, Governor Maura Healey announced that Massachusetts is partnering with a social impact investment firm to launch the Climate Technology Workforce Training Fund, which will include initial public funding, private funding, They announced that they are aiming to raise a total of $10 million in philanthropic funds. You can rent it out.
With ambitious mid-century emissions reduction goals set, Massachusetts wants to electrify heating and cooling systems and move private cars, but the state is also installing heat pumps and preparing homes to charge electric cars. , building offshore wind farms and doing more to get there. The Healey government said the workforce needed a “once-in-a-generation call to build an expanded and inclusive workforce”.
The Massachusetts Climate Careers Fund, led by the nonprofit Social Finance, aims to provide “high-quality training programs that prepare participants for high-paying, high-demand, skilled climate jobs, including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. We will provide financing to help you access and succeed. These include HVAC and refrigeration engineers, electricians, energy auditors, and electric vehicle mechanics, among others,” the governor's office said.
“Providing low-cost financing to support quality training, including needs like child care and transportation, which will bring more women, workers of color, and low-income residents into the clean energy economy.” “They can participate,” Healy wrote in his book. According to a prepared copy of her speech, the Vatican said: “This is a recycling fund where workers and employers repay loans into the fund to help more people and fill more jobs.”
In his remarks at the Vatican Climate Summit, Healy spoke about last summer's floods on a Massachusetts farm and downtown, saying, “You don't need to quote Genesis to say that flooding can send a message.” Stated. She said most government systems were “not designed to respond to the scale and urgency of this challenge” and that the nation's first-in-the-nation appointee, appointed at the cabinet level to weave climate change policy into all executive branches, He proposed a system called a climate change officer. ) as a model.
“We need to change the way we work. We must be more nimble and innovative than ever to adapt to the new realities we face. To ensure that climate science informs all our policies. , we must be more evidence-based than ever before, working together across all functions of government and all sectors of the economy to move all our efforts towards our climate goals. We have to adjust,” Healy said. “In short, we need new ways of governing to meet this challenge.”
