The Clean Growth Strategy was launched in the UK two weeks ago by Climate Change & Industry Minister Claire Perry MP. It sets out the UK Government’s high-level plans for reducing carbon emissions across heat, power, transport, waste, and farming through investment in low-carbon technologies and has support from the highest levels of government.
The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, said in her foreword to the document that “The Government will help British businesses and entrepreneurs to seize the opportunities which the global low carbon economy presents” while Greg Clark MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, commented that “We want the UK to capture every economic opportunity it can from [the] global shift in technologies and services.”
The launch of the strategy provides an ideal context for next year’s Cleantech Innovate showcase, which will take place on 20 th March 2018 in London. The showcase offers 36 of the most promising entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch their game-changing, low-carbon innovations to over 350 active funders, corporates, support agencies and the media.
“Policymakers are finally starting to recognise the enormous contribution that clean technologies can maketo reducing the UK’s carbon emissions and restoring the UK as an industrial powerhouse where innovationin sustainable solutions can flourish” said Charlotte Morton, Chief Executive of We Are Orchard, whoorganise the event. “With its support for low-carbon technologies across all sectors of the economy, theClean Growth Strategy represents a huge opportunity for cleantech in the UK. Cleantech Innovate 2018 willbe the ideal event for entrepreneurs and investors to meet to share the most exciting cleantech innovationsthat can help to meet the UK’s low-carbon policy goals.”
Applications to present at Cleantech Innovate close on 3 November 2017.
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