This is a very important document because it ends the uneasy drift there has been with energy policy over the last five years since Cameron’s ‘cut the green crap’. The strategy has been widely welcomed as signalling Government’s commitment. ‘It sets a direction, a tone and a set of goals, which together are an impressive reframing of government climate action, not as a painful but worthy struggle, but instead as an enormous economic opportunity that will underpin UK industrial success in a world which is rapidly decarbonising.’ (Dustin Benton, Green Alliance)

Four articles:

Clean Growth Strategy   BEIS   can be downloaded here

This strategy sets out our proposals for decarbonising all sectors of the UK economy through the 2020s. It explains how the whole country can benefit from low carbon opportunities, while meeting national and international commitments to tackle climate change. Support for Offshore Wind; no mentions of tidal lagoons. 

Carbon Brief   Excellent summary of the content 

Good for wind – Windpower Monthly – more investment for offshore and onshore in Scotland, and rural 

New Economics Foundation – David Powell – Clean Growth Strategy must mobilise people as well as investment