In 2002, a groundbreaking report was published by the DTI’s Joint Environmental Markets Unit (JEMU) looking at the health and prospects of the UK’s emerging environmental goods and services (EGS) sector.

Five years on, sector specialist UK CEED was commissioned by JEMU’s successor, the joint DTI/Defra Environment Industries Unit (EIU), to update the much-quoted report and project market growth forward to 2015.

The resulting report presents an on-going story of British success. The EGS sector is hugely diverse, dynamic and growing rapidly year-on-year. The sector plays the key role in delivering solutions to both our global and more local environmental challenges, as well as enabling us to meet our climate-change obligations. With the right support and investment, the report suggests the UK can become an established world leader in key technologies and services.

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Despite the farsighted, and potentially revolutionary, analysis of The Stern Report on Climate Change, the “Environment v competitiveness” debate raging for years in Whitehall and Brussels, urgently needs refocusing to recognise that environmental protection is fundamentally in the public interest. To rebalance the debate, the Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) has led the creation of a new coalition, the Aldersgate Group, which has been launched to prove that high environmental standards are a fundamental part of long-term economic competitiveness in the 21st century as well as to a high quality of life.

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