Labour leader Keir Starmer has called for rapid action to create new green employment after new figures reveal that more than 75,000 green jobs were lost from the UK economy in five years.
A pipeline of 540 green energy projects in the UK could ad 43GW of generation capacity and create more than 430,000 clean jobs, largely mitigating job losses caused by COVID-19, a new report has claimed.
Little was announced as part of this afternoon’s Spending Review that directly related to the energy sector, despite Chancellor Rishi Sunak stating that the government was "setting the direction" for green energy.
The UK’s current energy stimulus package misses the opportunity to create new green jobs and accelerate the transition to a flexible, renewable powered economy, according to a new report.
