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I see that the climate change debate between Ed Miliband, Greg Clark and Simon Hughes caused plenty of animated discussion last night. As you might expect, any passing similarities in green issues amongst election manifestos were swiftly demolished. Although discussion ranged onto nuclear and wind farms – slightly out of Groundwork’s experience – central to the debate was the question of government intervention.
I believe government must play a role in kickstarting green growth. We are big supporters of green jobs and have created thousands of temporary posts for the Future Jobs Fund and Community Task Force programmes. Yet we find that once the six months experience is up, there are still relatively small numbers of permanent green jobsout there, despite bringing benefits to the community and the environment. Enterprise can certainly rise to the challenge of creating the jobs but, in order to do so, businesses must have confidence that the market will be there. This requires a strong signal from government, in particular greater support for and encouragement of the retrofitting of existing homes. Without that signal,we will continue to struggle to realise the economic, environmental and social benefits of something where the UK should be leading the world.
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