This year, green careers week takes place between 3 and 7 November 2024. We’ve compiled some of our favourite resources on the topic to highlight the diversity of geography-based careers, as well as their potential positive impact on the environment. Please share, and enjoy!

• How can schools build the green workforce of the future?: An article by Steve Brace, the GA’s Chief Executive, for Schools Week.
• Jobs and careers in geography: Our landing page exploring the range of careers that geography education opens up.
• Career profile: Flood & Coastal Erosion Risk Management: How one geographer is using her existing skills to reduce the impact of climate change on humans and the environment.
• Dam planning and construction: A resource made in conjunction with the British Dam Society (including lesson plans, activities and student resources) showcasing the need for geography at every level of creating a new dam.
• Future geographers: careers as an integral part of the curriculum: This Teaching Geography article by Laura Bytheway explores how best to broach the topic of geography careers with your students.
• Teaching about geography careers: from intent to impact: Aidan Hesslewood, in another Teaching Geography article, focuses on careers guidance in geography.
• Geographers in politics and Geographers in the media: these posters demonstrate how widespread the careers of geographers can be, as well as what geographers can do on various levels to promote and enact sustainability.