Closing the green skills gap

Ben Kite talks to Chris Seekings about how the UK’s skills gap threatens to undermine the country’s environmental ambitions
Despite being one of the UK’s most long-standing ecological consultancy firms, your company, EPR, has had to turn down work due to a lack of skilled workers. As managing director and an IEMA PractitiContinue reading this with an IEMA membership
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