The UK’s industrial strategy aims to boost business productivity and create good quality jobs across the country, with particular focus in former industrial communities.

Low carbon development and greater resource efficiency are important drivers of competitive advantage in manufacturing, agriculture, construction and business services, as well as in energy and transport. A modern industrial strategy will only succeed if it is aligned with UK low carbon energy and resource policies.

This publication brings together the views of respected thinkers from politics, business, trade unions and academia on the kind of economy the industrial strategy should be building and the role low carbon and resource efficiency can play.