UK Government Announces Clean Growth Strategy

The UK government has belatedly published its Clean Growth Strategy, which sets out how it aims to meet its legal obligations under the Climate Change Act 2008. Clean growth is defined in the report as growing national income while cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The report first sets out the successes that the UK has already had in meeting climate change targets before exploring future policies. The report brings attention to the fact that the percentage of electricity that is low carbon is double that of 2010 at 47 percent, and that England recycles approximately four times as much as in 2000.

Highlights of the strategy include:

• £2.5bn invested in low carbon innovation from 2015-2021;