When trawling for ways to encapsulate the drivers behind greenhouse gas emissions, we can all be confronted with a bewildering array of statistics and factors. While it is not new, we think that this United Nations Environment Programme graphic, created by Grid-Arendal (one of UNEP's collaboration centres) is absolutely fantastic and gives a huge amount of context to the issues and sectors that create Greenhouse gases.
Great work Norway!
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and Department for Business (BERR) has today published The Government’s emerging Low Carbon Industrial Strategy as new figures from research showed the UK green goods and services sector is already the 6th biggest in the world.
Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson (minus the green custard) and Ed Miliband are meeting business leaders at a Low Carbon Industrial Summit in London today to map out the UK’s industrial priorities for taking advantage of the new global low carbon economy – currently estimated to be worth £3 trillion globally and employing over 880,000 people in the UK.
A pamphlet published today, ‘Low Carbon Industrial Strategy: a Vision’, highlights a range of companies in the UK already taking advantage of low carbon opportunity and sets out the scope and ambition of the Government’s plans. Businesses and others with an interest are asked for their input through a new interactive website to inform a final Strategy to be published before the summer.
The Government’s Low Carbon Industrial Strategy will aim for step change in four key areas:
• Energy efficiency to save businesses, consumers and the public services money
• Putting in place the energy infrastructure for the UK’s low carbon future – in renewables, nuclear, Carbon Capture and Storage and a ‘smart’ grid
• Making the UK a global leader in the development and production of low carbon vehicles
• Ensuring our skills, infrastructure, procurement, research and development, demonstration and deployment policies make the UK the best place to locate and develop a low carbon business and make sure international business recognises that.
