Environmental News: Environmental talent key to economic growth: Ministers
Britain must remain at the forefront of the green industrial revolution, creating jobs and economic growth, ministers said today as they published plans to work with business to build a low carbon economy in Britain.
The Government has committed to working with business to make the UK one of the best places in the world to develop and introduce low carbon, resource efficient products and services, and has today published Building a Low Carbon Economy: Unlocking Environmental Innovation and Skills in response to the Commission on Environmental Markets and Economic Performance (CEMEP), which reported late last year.
The Government has identified four main prerequisites for building a low carbon economy:
- A clear, consistent long-term policy framework to provide business with the confidence to invest and to enable the timely development of innovative products and services;
- Policies that positively support innovation, to create the conditions that allow innovation to flourish;
- Developing the right skills by drawing on the talent and creativity of the British people;
- Fostering true partnerships between Government, business, trade unions, higher education bodies and others.
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said:
“The UK has a history of moving early on green issues. For example, the Climate Change Bill currently before Parliament is the first of its kind in the world, and it will create certainty for businesses and investors in green industry for decades to come.
“The Government is committed to building a low carbon economy, here and around the world. That means a complete change in the way we live and an economic transformation that will put Britain at the forefront of a technological revolution in the way we use and source our energy. It is the talent of our people that will bring about that revolution.”
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