This morning Labour leader Ed Miliband used his speech on the economy at the London Stock Exchange to attack the Chancellor George Osborne for “posing the environment and the economy as alternatives.”
Responding, Greenpeace’s executive director, John Sauven, said:
“George Osborne must stop holding back Britain’s low-carbon businesses. Everybody from the CBI to the Labour leadership to green groups are now urging him to back these growing industries.
“This sector provided around a third of all growth in the economy over the past year, and Ed Miliband is right to highlight how it should be central to our economic recovery.”
In remarks following the speech Miliband said it was important that low-carbon investment was prioritised. Shadow chancellor Ed Balls also attacked George Osborne for failing to see climate change as a growth opportunity for the UK economy, and for creating investor uncertainty over renewable energy.
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