Asia's aspiring 'green-collar' workers hope for jobs in COVID recovery

(Reuters, 28 Oct 2020) The 'Green Collar' portal, which posts jobs from renewable energy to farming and climate change, is billed as the first such initiative in Southeast Asia.

A Singapore-based website tapping into the growing demand for environmentally careers in Asia is hoping it would be the link to "meaningful" employments as countries try to revive economies hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

The "Green Collar" portal, which lists jobs from renewable energy to farming and climate change, is billed as the first such initiative in Southeast Asia, a disaster-prone region that often comes under threats from floods to typhoons.

It started when its co-founder Heng Li Seng, who runs a social enterprise in Singapore on reducing waste and coastal cleanups since 2017, began to receive growing number of enquiries about sustainability-related jobs.

When Singapore's trade-reliant economy plunged into a recession in July, forcing some companies to cut jobs, he thought it was time to act.

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