Green employment, revenues, exports and infrastructure investment is all rising, according to a major new Green Alliance report
30 Aug 2012 - The scale of the economic "success story" delivered by the UK's green businesses was highlighted today with the release of a major new report revealing how low-carbon industries are now among the UK's largest employers, accounting for almost 10 per cent of economic activity.
The new report from the Green Alliance think tank draws on a raft of official government figures to summarise the current state of the green economy, confirming that the sector was worth £122bn in 2011 and has been consistently growing at between four and five per cent since the financial crisis of 2008.
It also contrasts the 939,600 people regarded by the government as being employed in low-carbon and environmental jobs with other sectors, revealing that the green economy has a significantly higher workforce than the auto industry, which employs just over half a million people, and the telecommunications sector, which employs just 212,900 people. read more>>>
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