PRESELI MP Stephen Crabb has welcomed the Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, which could see 250,000 new jobs across the UK.
Covering clean energy, transport, nature and innovative technologies, Boris Johnson’s blueprint will allow the UK to forge ahead with eradicating its contribution to climate change by 2050, particularly crucial in the run up to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow next year.
The plan – which is part of the PM’s mission to level up across the country – will mobilise £12 billion of government investment to create and support up to 250,000 highly-skilled green jobs in the UK, and spur over three times as much private sector investment by 2030.
Featuring in the plan is a focus on increasing offshore wind, accelerating the transition to electric vehicles and investing in zero-emission public transport.
The PM’s plan also aims to support difficult-to-decarbonise industries to become greener through research projects for zero-emission planes and ships and becoming a world-leader in technology to capture and store harmful emissions away from the atmosphere.
Preseli MP Stephen Crabb, who has long championed the positive role Pembrokeshire can play in developing green energy, said: “This is a big commitment from the UK Government on creating a new generation of ‘green jobs’ as part of our economic recovery and underlining the UK’s leadership on climate change.
“Pembrokeshire, with our natural resources and skilled workforce, is well-placed to benefit from a Green Industrial Revolution especially when it comes to offshore wind power and other marine renewable’s.
“However, bringing forward the ban on new petrol and diesel cars will be a challenge for the UK’s oil refining industry. So the UK Government must step up its support for new technologies and ensure that new high quality jobs and training opportunities are created.”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: “Although this year has taken a very different path to the one we expected, I haven’t lost sight of our ambitious plans to level up across the country. My Ten Point Plan will create, support and protect hundreds of thousands of green jobs, whilst making strides towards net zero by 2050.
“Our green industrial revolution will be powered by the wind turbines of Scotland and the North East, propelled by the electric vehicles made in the Midlands and advanced by the latest technologies developed in Wales, so we can look ahead to a more prosperous, greener future.”
