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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey Environment editor

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Uks growing green economy worth more than ps100bn a year research finds - Caught on Camera

The wind turbines of the biggest offshore windfarm in the world, off the coast of north Lincolnshire, England.
The findings are good news for Ed Miliband, the UK’s secretary of state for energy security and net zero. Photograph: David Sillitoe/The Guardian

More than a million jobs, higher wages, nearly half a trillion pounds in investment in the pipeline – the UK’s green economy is powering ahead, according to research by the country’s leading business organisation.

The net zero economy, which is worth more than £100bn a year, benefits all of the UK, according to the CBI Economics analysis commissioned by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit thinktank, despite critics who want to abolish the UK’s net zero targets.

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