Aspiring 'green-collar' workers hope for jobs in Covid recovery

Farmers plant rice sprouts in a paddy field in Nakhon Sawan province, north of Bangkok May 4, 2008. [Reuters]

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.