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£166m for UK green projects
The UK government is putting up £166 million to drive forward developments in technology needed for a green industrial revolution including carbon capture, greenhouse gas removal and hydrogen.
The funding will create over 60,000 well-paid green jobs across the UK, cutting business costs and helping to revitalise industrial heartlands and meet the UK’s climate target of reducing emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels
“Six months ago, the Prime Minister set out a 10 Point Plan for creating and supporting up to 250,000 British jobs as we level up and build back greener from the pandemic,” says energy minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan (pictured).
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Toss a coin and which version of Britain do you see: the one that looks ahead to the future, or the one obsessed with the long tail of its history? On the one hand, the UK s commitment to Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050, its hosting of the G7 Summit in June and of the UN s COP26 Climate Change Conference in November, tell the planet that it is serious about tackling global warming.
But on the other, Prime Minister Boris Johnson s penchant for playing to the sceptics gallery with jokes about bunny huggers needlessly creates the opposite impression. It suggests that while Britain makes occasional pronouncements about the climate crisis or new technologies, its leader sees these things as just another excuse for a jape. That risks undermining some good, serious work - and it patronizes the people who are doing it.
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