Major blueprint to create green jobs and slash emissions from industry, schools and hospitals
An ambitious blueprint to deliver the world’s first low-carbon industrial sector and over £1 billion to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals has been announced by the Business and Energy Secretary.
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17 March 2021
Over £1 billion allocated to drive down emissions from industry and public buildings like schools, hospitals and council buildings
new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy sets vision for world’s first low carbon industrial sector, slashing emissions by two-thirds in just 15 years
package of measures will put the UK at the forefront of the global green industrial revolution, creating and supporting up to 80,000 jobs over the next 3 decades
Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy: Government sets out vision for decarbonising heavy industry
CCS and hydrogen facility planned at Saltend Chemicals Park in the Humber is among the projects to secure funding | Credit: px Group
Strategy to set out a number of new targets for the decarbonisation of industry, as government confirms details of nine projects to be awarded funding through Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge - but opposition warns plans lack necessary ambition
The government has unveiled a package of new climate promises and funding announcements designed to catalyse the decarbonisation of heavy industry around the UK, ranging from a pledge to consider targets.
The UK government has handed out £171 million ($237 million) to kick-start a series of projects that aim to decarbonise large swathes of industry using technologies to produce clean-burning hydrogen and to capture carbon dioxide as part of a new “green revolution”.
The funding is part of wider government plans announced on Wednesday to invest nearly £1 billion to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals, create thousands of jobs and meet climate targets.
The government said in a statement it hopes the funding will create and support up to 80,000 jobs over the next 30 years and help the country cut emissions from industry by two-thirds in 15 years.
Aberdeenshire to drive forward green industrial revolution
A new project to provide safe carbon storage capacity in the North Sea, off Aberdeenshire, will benefit from £31 million of UK Government funding.
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17 March 2021
£31 million UK Government funding for world-class, safe carbon storage in rock deep below the North Sea
Project could cut emissions and support a greener economy across North East Scotland, creating tens of thousands of new jobs
Funding part of a wider package of UK Government measures to put the UK at the forefront of the global green industrial revolution.
An ambitious new project to provide world-class, safe carbon storage capacity in the North Sea, off Aberdeenshire, will benefit from £31 million of UK Government funding and could create tens of thousands of new, green jobs, the UK Business and Energy Secretary announced today (Wednesday 17 March).
Carbon capture, usage and storge (CCUS) and hydrogen projects are among key initiatives to gain investment as part of the government’s new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, announced today.
The strategy is “an ambitious blueprint” to deliver the world’s first low-carbon industrial sector and includes over £1bn of funding to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals.
To kick start the process, £171M from the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge has been allocated to nine green tech projects in Scotland, South Wales and the North West, Humber and Teesside in England, to undertake engineering and design studies for the rollout of decarbonisation infrastructure, such as CCUS and hydrogen.