Brooklyn Navy Yard hosts Green Skills Summit to build ‘green collar’ workforce

September 20, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

Lindsay Greene, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation. Photo: Brooklyn Navy Yard

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BROOKLYN NAVY YARD — CLIMATE WEEK NYC starts next week, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard hosted its first-ever Green Skills Summit on Thursday to kick it off. The summit brought together workforce development leaders to shape the future of green collar jobs and skills and took a deep dive into three specific sustainable sectors: renewable wind power, electrification and building decarbonization. Lindsay Greene, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, called preparing New Yorkers for the green industries of the future “one of the most pressing challenges of our time.”

The summit illustrated the collaboration between the city, nonprofits, educational institutions and the private sector, Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development and Workforce Maria Torres-Springer said in a release.

“When the city released the Green Economy Action Plan in February, we committed to building our green collar workforce to 400,000 employees by 2040 to ensure New Yorkers are connected to family-sustaining jobs through the industries that help to combat climate change,” she said in her keynote address.

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