Green policies can help to solve fundamental economic challenges facing the UK. There is clear evidence that green investment raises productivity and will lead to high quality jobs in new industries. A green industrial strategy would bring a new sense of purpose and pride to the UK. We identify and recommend how to maximise the economic benefits, particularly so they are experienced fairly by everyone across the country, to reinforce public support for ambitious climate and environmental action.
Why this matters
450k
New jobs that could be created in an expanded UK circular economy
12%
Reduction in GDP in the years ahead due to nature degradation
£50bn
Green investment needed annually by 2030
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Latest thinking
View AllThe nature of our economy: with Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta
19 March, 2025
What are the fiscal costs of climate change mitigation and damage?
4 December, 2024
The Dasgupta Review: how can we embed nature into economic decision making?
16 July, 2024
The nature of our economy
16 April, 2024
Why the UK needs an industrial strategy, and why it must be green, with Matthew Lockwood and Silvia Weko
26 February, 2024
Green shoots: growing the green workforce of the future
23 January, 2024
What is carbon pricing and does the UK need it?
21 June, 2023
The cluster effect: why the UK needs a place-based green industrial strategy
19 June, 2023
