Reacting to Shadow Chancellor George Osborne's Speech at Imperial College today, Greenpeace executive director John Sauven said:
"A new bank to drive money into green investment is a good proposal. We now need clarity on how the Conservatives would make this sufficiently ambitious to provide the tens of billions needed to create a low carbon economy and develop new green industries.
"We need to encourage long term investment from pension funds and savings schemes to fund clean energy projects.