Low Carbon Industrial Strategy
The UK Low Carbon Industrial Strategy was launched on 15 July 2009 with the core objective of ensuring that British businesses and workers are equipped to maximise the economic opportunities and minimise the costs of the transition to a low carbon economy.
Building on the framework for supporting British business set out in Building Britain’s Future: New Industry, New Jobs (PDF), its ambition is to ensure that the transition to low carbon is a source of quality jobs and business savings in Britain: from our rapidly developing civil nuclear industry and renewable energy sector, to energy saving in our smallest SMEs..
In March 2009 the Government launched Low Carbon Industrial Strategy: A Vision, setting out key areas for the Strategy to target. This was followed in April 2009 with ambitious investment and policy plans set out in Investing in a Low Carbon Britain.
The UK Low Carbon Industrial Strategy now develops and brings together these strands of work into a single strategy for seizing the industrial benefits of the transition to low carbon in Britain in the years ahead.
The Strategy is supported by the economic analysis put forward in BIS Economics Paper No. 1, Towards a Low Carbon Economy: economic analysis and evidence for a low carbon industrial strategy.
More information and the latest news on how the Government is working to deliver a low carbon future for the UK can be found on the Government’s Low Carbon Transition News Hub: www.hmg.gov.uk/lowcarbon
