Equipping street-level bureaucrats with green skills for sustainable public policy change Kesternich, Martin Kiepe, Karina Reimsbach, Daniel Trang, Simon Thanh-Nam Yang, Philip <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> The shift to a low-carbon economy requires developing green skills across sectors. This paper builds on a recent Perspective <jats:sup>1</jats:sup> article examining how institutional regimes shape green skill formation. Drawing on the microfoundations of management research, we propose a micro-level perspective of public sector green skill formation, thereby emphasizing the role of street-level bureaucrats serving as public servants who directly engage with citizens in implementing public policies and outline a research agenda. </jats:p> Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2026 info:eu-repo/semantics/article doc-type:article text http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 https://ris.uni-paderborn.de/record/65783 Kesternich M, Kiepe K, Reimsbach D, Trang ST-N, Yang P. Equipping street-level bureaucrats with green skills for sustainable public policy change. <i>npj Climate Action</i>. 2026;5(1). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-026-00389-9">10.1038/s44168-026-00389-9</a> eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/s44168-026-00389-9 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/2731-9814 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess