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UKGBC calls for energy efficiency funding
24/03/10
Edited by Tom Bardsley. The chief executive of the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has backed plans for funding specifically dedicated towards helping businesses improve their energy efficiency.
In a letter sent to the Guardian newspaper, Paul King signed his support for an investment bank to be created by chancellor Alistair Darling to help build green businesses and infrastructure in the UK.
Mr. King, and 11 other signatories, including Andy Atkins from Friends of the Earth and James Cameron of Climate Change Capital, called for at least £750 billion to be dedicated to developing low-carbon infrastructure, low-carbon energy and improved energy efficiency over the next 20 years.
UKGBC believes that in order to see this fulfilled a green infrastructure bank must be set up with a mission to increase investment quickly into a low-carbon economy.
It believes that a general infrastructure bank would not give the same focus to environmental and energy efficiency factors in the development of buildings.
Set up in February 2007, UKGBC aims to bring clarity, purpose and coordination of sustainability to the built environment.
