The champions of clean growth: member case studies

We have 12 years left to save the planet. Last week’s warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came with an urgent call to action – we need “rapid and far-reaching” shifts in the way we use land, energy, industry, buildings, transport and cities.

Green Great Britain Week – a government initiative designed to celebrate and drive “clean growth” – provides a timely opportunity to look at how UK firms are meeting the challenge.

But first, what is clean growth?

It’s shifting to a low carbon economy, driving new economic growth, creating businesses and jobs while cutting our emissions and reducing the impact on our natural environment.

Since 1990, the UK has reduced its emissions by over 40 per cent, while the economy has grown by over two thirds. The low carbon sector already supports almost 400,000 jobs. But the government has shown its intent to make the UK a champion of progress by linking