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Sustainability Specialists

US evidence · AI already used for 0 of 10 main tasks · Check another job

Address organizational sustainability issues, such as waste stream management, green building practices, and green procurement plans.

10 main tasks · most important first

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Importance

01Develop sustainability project goals, objectives, initiatives, or strategies in collaboration with other sustainability professionals.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
02Monitor or track sustainability indicators, such as energy usage, natural resource usage, waste generation, and recycling.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
03Assess or propose sustainability initiatives, considering factors such as cost effectiveness, technical feasibility, and acceptance.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
04Provide technical or administrative support for sustainability programs or issues.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
05Review and revise sustainability proposals or policies.AI could speed this up a lot
06Develop reports or presentations to communicate the effectiveness of sustainability initiatives.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
07Create or maintain plans or other documents related to sustainability projects.AI could speed this up a lot
08Collect information about waste stream management or green building practices to inform decision makers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
09Research or review regulatory, technical, or market issues related to sustainability.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
10Identify or investigate violations of natural resources, waste management, recycling, or other environmental policies.AI could speed this up, with extra tools

Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.

Checked O*NET 31.0, August 2026Corrections

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Where these numbers come from

O*NET 31.0 Database, US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), 2026-08. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (observed exposure), Anthropic, 2026-03-05. Licence: CC BY.

Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations (v1.1), Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025-12. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

GPTs are GPTs: labor market impact potential of LLMs (Science, 2024), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023. Licence: MIT.

What work can robots do? (robot exposure index), Anthropic, 2026-09-30. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

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