A resilient and competitive economy is one that carefully maintains and improves the state of its natural resources. Our dependency on natural capital is fundamental. It underpins the economy and...
The Government must ensure that education and training are designed for future needs and not merely to remedy current shortages. A significant consensus is developing in Britain. In politics, business...
Public discussion of the employment effects of the transition to a low carbon economy has mostly focused on the creation of “green jobs”. The Aldersgate Group believes that an...
The UK is still lagging behind on most indicators and undershooting the sector targets for greenhouse gas emissions. In 2010 residential buildings represented 28% of our UK greenhouse gas emissions...
It is increasingly evident that resource efficiency – that is, the systematic reduction in the quantity of resource employed to produce goods and services in the economy – will be...
The Aldersgate Group believes that high environmental standards, particularly in the use of our natural resources, are essential for our future economic well-being and for the competitiveness of the...
The UK Government’s Natural Environment White Paper brings forward current ideas on the value of environment into policy making. The global importance of understanding, measuring and capturing the value of...
When the UK Government published its Low Carbon Transition Plan amid the most severe economic downturn in decades, many of us were encouraged to see that initiatives to tackle...
The UK is facing a time of considerable economic stress. Restoring growth and re-balancing the economy are urgent priorities. Focusing our recovery effort on low carbon growth can re-power the...
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