Green transition Climate change adaptation is expected to be the third-largest contributor to net growth in global jobs by 2030, projected to contribute an additional 5 million net jobs, while climate-change mitigation comes in 6th with an additional 3 million net jobs. Trends in energy generation, storage and distribution, meanwhile, are expected to create an additional 1 million net jobs – the second-largest technology-based contribution to net job growth (after trends in AI and information processing technology). Expectations around climate-change adaptation and mitigation trends are pushing Environmental Engineers and Renewable Energy Engineers into the top 15 fastest-growing jobs, as well as driving growth in roles such as Sustainability Specialists and Renewable Energy Technicians. This is corroborated by evidence that “green hiring” has consistently outperformed overall labour-market hiring trends in recent years (Box 2.1). Both green transition-related macrotrends are also expected to drive some of the largest labour-market transformation, in absolute terms, in the global economy. This includes being the largest drivers of both job growth and decline in Farmworkers, Labourers, and Other Agricultural Workers as well as being among the strongest drivers of net job growth for Building Framers, Finishers and Related Trades Workers. Green hiring rates BOX 2.1 LinkedIn data, generated up to July 2024 for the Future of Jobs Report 2025, assesses the progression of green hiring rates compared to overall hiring rates. By comparing the share of LinkedIn members with green skills being hired with the overall hiring rate, it is possible to assess differences in employment outcomes between these two groups.Figure B2.1 shows that LinkedIn members with green skills are being hired at a significantly higher rate than other members. Despite a dip in green hiring throughout 2021 and early 2022, green hiring has consistently outperformed the overall hiring, and this outperformance has been consistently getting larger since its low point of May 2022.In collaboration with LinkedIn 0 50 60 30 40 10 20 01/2021 04/2021 07/2021 10/2021 01/2022 04/2022 07/2022 10/2022 01/2024 04/2024 07/2024 01/2023 04/2023 07/2023 10/2023Hiring rate (%) Source LinkedIn analysis. Green hiring rates FIGURE B2.1 Outperformance in hiring rate for LinkedIn members with green skills versus all LinkedIn members, percent, January 2021 to July 2024 Month Future of Jobs Report 2025 30