GIVING UP ON GREEN

摘要

There is a new realism to the government's green agenda - and doesn't the construction industry just know it. Last month, chancellor George Osborne told the Conservative Party conference that the UK would not rush ahead of Europe in the race for a green economy. His language was as emotive as it is depressing: "We're not going to save the planet by putting our country out of business," he said. But tell that to the once rapidly growing solar sector, which this week warned that the government's decision to halve solar feed-in tariffs could send their firms under (see page 10 and 22-23).