Labour publishes plans to create a green economy

摘要

Labour has published details of how it plans to create a green economy by committing to decarbonising the UK's electricity supply by 2030 and creating a million green jobs over the next decade through a green industrial strategy. Signed by Labour leader Ed Miliband, shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint and shadow secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs Maria Eagle, the party's Green Plan elaborates on earlier commitments from the party on green issues, made in its main manifesto, and explains how Labour expects to decarbonise the UK's energy supply. The Green Plan envisages an overhaul of the country's approach to energy efficiency by upgrading and insulating five million homes over 10 years and by making household energy efficiency a national infrastructure priority, an aim also backed by the Lib Dems and contained in Building's Agenda 15 manifesto.