FACTBOX-Key facts from Britain's low carbon route map

Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:10pm BST
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LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - Britain outlined on Wednesday how it plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change.

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Following are the key elements of the plan.

INDUSTRY

The government said the low carbon sector would be one of the few areas of the economy to grow during the recession and beyond. The UK low carbon goods and services sector is expected to grow by more than 4 percent per year up to 2014/15.

The global low carbon market could expand to at least 4.3 trillion pounds ($7.05 trillion) by 2015 from 3 trillion pounds in 2007/8 if a deal is reached at climate talks in Copenhagen in December.

The number of people employed in the sector in Britain could rise to more than 1 million by 2015, from 880,000 today.  Continued...

 
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