Enabling the Transition to the Green Economy

The Government has published Enabling the Transition to a Green Economy: Government and business working together in response to private sector calls for greater clarity on what the Government means by ‘green economy’, the policies put in place to achieve this and how they work as a whole. The paper has been developed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; the department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Energy and Climate Change and is intended to map out planned Government action to 2020. Speaking about the paper Business Secretary, The Rt. Hon Vince Cable MP said, “We have produced Enabling the Transition to a Green Economy in response to businesses who have told us that they needed greater clarity on what environmental policy means for them.” The document covers areas including climate change, resource efficiency, waste prevention, carbon capture and storage, offshore wind generation, and the Green Deal and further sets out Government commitments to establishing the clarity and certainty needed to attract private sector investment. Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, The Rt. Hon Chris Huhne MP said, “British businesses hold the key to making a success of the green economy and the Coalition wants to do everything it can to dismantle the barriers to making that happen.”

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