Industry leaders and GMB union urge Government to secure 770,000 jobs with rural decarbonisation strategy

One of the UK’s largest industrial decarbonisation trade bodies, ADE: Demand, and the GMB Union have today written jointly to Industry Ministers warning half of British industry is being left behind and urgent action is needed to protect hundreds of thousands of jobs. Government industrial policy is currently focused on a small number of large, coastal sites where heavy industry is concentrated. These clusters have received significant government funding and policy attention to develop shared infrastructure for carbon capture and hydrogen. Yet, half of the UK’s industrial emissions come from “dispersed”…

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