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Green Expectations: London jobless set to benefit from environmental initiatives

13 September 2010: Green Expectations sets out London’s low carbon job prospects from 2008/09 to 2012/13. The report’s key findings include:

  • Job Growth in London’s low carbon sector, particularly in renewable energy, is forecast to exceed all other sectors in the next two years.
  • In 2008/09 approximately 100,000 people were employed in the low carbon sector in London, and by 2013 18,000 new jobs will be created.
  • An estimated 2,200 of these net new jobs in the low carbon sector will be accessible to workless or low-skilled Londoners.
  • The current skills profile of the sector is characterised by high skills with more than one in two employees having a degree. However, a quarter of all jobs in the sector currently require skills at Level 2 and below.
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GLA – London Energy and Greenhouse Gas Inventory (LEGGI)

September 2010: London Energy and Greenhouse Gas Inventory 2008 showing total greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption by London Borough.
LEGGI 2008 Borough Summary
LEGGI 2008 Database

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Regional CHP and Renewable Energy Statistics

September 2010:  Two articles in September’s issue of DECC’s quarterly publication Energy Trends providing a regional breakdown of CHP and renewable energy statistics.

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Camden – Meeting 40% Carbon Emissions Reductions by 2020

5 September 2010: Report prepared for Camden by Carbon Descent studying routes for the borough’s 40% carbon emission reduction by 2020

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Challenges to Achieving Low Carbon and Decentralised Energy in Central London

15 August 2010: Central London Forward (a sub-regional strategic organization representing the seven central London local authorities) commissioned analysis of the plans, potential and challenges for achieving carbon reduction objectives and delivering decentralised energy networks in Central London.

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Havering Home Energy Efficiency Programme report

July 2010:  A report on the Havering Homes Energy Efficiency Programme demonstration scheme – funded under the Mayor’s RENEW scheme – which was co-ordinated by the East London Renewal Partnership (ELRP) and delivered by LondonWarm Zone (LWZ).

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Statistics collected under NI 185 and 194

July 2010CO2, NOx and PM10 emissions from local authorities’ operations during financial year 2008/09 – provisional statistics collected under National Indicator 185 and 194.

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Low Carbon Skills for London’

June 2010:  LDA commissioned research focused on those sub-sectors that are related to the carbon reduction programme and LDA intervention. These sub-sectors generate a sales turnover of £13.5 billion, and employ around 100,000 employees. The largest of these sub-sectors sectors are the geothermal and wind energy sub-sectors. Sectors showing the greatest levels of growth are photovoltaic, wind and building technology.
Consensus view forecasts up to 2013 show that the low carbon sector as a whole is expected to grow at above average trend2. Wind energy is expected to grow at around 5% per annum; photovoltaic and biomass at over 4% per annum and recovery and recycling and waste management growing at between 2- 3% per annum. Applying these levels of growth to current employment levels suggest that London’s low carbon sector would need a further 18,000 employees by 2013. This would take employment in the sector to around 120,000 employees by 2013

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Bright future for Arcola Energy

June 2012: “A fuel cell technology business is the last thing that you might expect to find at a small, independent theatre, but Arcola Energy is full of surprises.” Daily Telegraph piece on fascinating initiative launched by the Dalston-based organisation.

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Sutton – Our Low Energy Heritage

June 2010: Our Low Energy Heritage is a project which looks at the lives of those in the London Borough of Sutton in times past and records the experiences of the older generation. This generation lived through times of shortage, when energy was less cheap and less available.

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Government’s Updated Energy Projections

June 2010: DECC’s latest Updated Energy Projections (UEP)  which analyse and project future energy use and carbon dioxide emissions in the UK . The projections – core to much of the Government’s energy policy decision-making – are based on assumptions of future economic growth, fossil fuel prices, UK population and other key variables.

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The Low Carbon Capital – Narrative and Action Plan

May 2010: From high level estimates London could attract between £40bn to £140bn of investment spend in low carbon and create a workforce of up to 225,000 people over the coming decades. Read the LDA summary report and full Ernst and Study analysis for the LDA here.

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