SIR – Barack Obama has promised up to five million jobs in the US for a shift to green energy industries.
The EU has just set a target to increase the proportion of renewable energy used across the EU to 20 per cent by 2020, although the UK target is only 15 per cent.
This was all led through the European Parliament by a Green Party MEP. With the green energy target, this is now a fantastic opportunity to push forward the renewable energy industry in the West Midlands.
Serious investment in wind and solar power can offer both cuts in our climate change impact and jobs for manufacturers and installers. Just 26,000 people in the UK are employed in the green energy industry while in Germany 250,000 people work in the field.
We need to take the on the green industry challenge now before somewhere else gets all the green jobs.
Felicity Norman,
Green Party Prospective MEP.
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