On 6 March 2008, the UK government (BERR and DECC) launched the
'Low Carbon Industrial Strategy: a Vision'. A public
consultation on the draft paper began on Friday and aims to gather
responses from stakeholders to inform the final strategy paper,
which the government intends to publish this summer. The government
intends the above to be used to help define government policy going
forward and impact a wide variety of industries.
A large number of separate initiatives are already in train for
most of the areas that the strategy paper covers. How the outcome
of the consultation will be reflected in those separate initiatives
and processes is not made clear. Given the paper's breadth of
scope, it could be used to integrate the strategy for achieving a
low carbon economy and draw together the strands for the various
initiatives in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), renewables,
nuclear, energy infrastructure and energy efficiency, and to
highlight inconsistencies of
