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The UK’s leading green business groups have today urged firms to act now to enhance their energy efficiency and bolster investment in low carbon technologies in the wake of the climate change committee’s recommendation that the government should adopt more ambitious emission reduction targets.

The calls for emission cuts of at least 21 per cent by 2020 form the centrepiece of the committee’s Building a low carbon economy report, which also sets out recommendations for the government’s first three five-year carbon budget and outlines plans for a major overhaul of the country’s power generation and transport infrastructure.

While the government will have the final say on whether or not to accept the committee’s targets and recommendations, Craig Bennett of the Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change said that firms should assume that the report will be rubber stamped by the government with relatively few changes. Read more

Source: Business Green

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