Green Partnership in Action

• Projects to advance learning about the green sector and ways that Aboriginal people can achieve business and employment opportunities in the sector.
• Joint applications for grants and joint responses to requests for proposals, where appropriate.
• Cross-skills training between AHRC and OSEA working groups to identify human resources areas that need further development and adjustment to satisfy the green labour market.
• Developing a web-based seminar to discuss the findings of the cross-skills working group.

In April, 2010, AHRC and OSEA jointly released a new publication called Green Energy Outlook: Generating Opportunities for Aboriginal Communities to promote the initiative at the council’s national Inclusion Works ’10 event in Toronto. Inclusion Works ‘10 also included a breakout session on “Creating Aboriginal Opportunities in the Green Energy Sector.” Click here to read the Inclusion Works ’10 report to learn more

OSEA Executive Director, Kristopher Stevens, says “it’s estimated that the Green Energy and Green Economy Act will result in the creation of more than 50,000 jobs in Ontario’s green energy sector in the next three years, which will drive over $10 billion worth of revenue.”

AHRC president and CEO, Kelly J. Lendsay, says “green energy represents the next big opportunity for Aboriginal communities and it’s a natural connection between Indigenous Peoples and sustainable development.”

“Today, Aboriginal communities, businesses and individuals are in a position to learn, invest and develop and that’s exactly what we will do in the coming years,” he adds.

Click here to download a copy Green Energy Outlook: Generating Opportunities for Aboriginal Communities.