Govt plans 160,000 new eco-jobs

26/06/2008

The government has announced plans that could help create 160,000 new eco-jobs.

Business secretary, John Hutton, released the renewable energy blueprint, which hopes to cut emissions and increase employment in 'green collar' jobs.

Mr Hutton told the government's Low Carbon Economy Summit, the plan will open a "new chapter in Britain's history as a nation of enterprise and innovation".

It would, he claimed, move the UK "from the old, carbon intensive economy of the industrial revolution to the new low carbon technologies of the 21st century".

By utilising its established manufacturing economy, he hopes to adopt new environmentally friendly business models and meet the earlier goal of having 15 per cent renewable energy by 2020.

'Green collar' jobs refers to work that involves the design, manufacture, and operation of energy efficiency technologies, 'white collar' to business workers and 'blue collar' to manual labourers.

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