Labour's green strategy is a good start - but it risks falling into a familiar trap

clock • 4 min read

If a Labour government is to fulfil its promise to create one million jobs, it needs to focus on opening up green skills pipeline, writes Greenworkx CEO Mat Ilic

This week the Labour Party unveiled its plans for its fourth 'mission': to make the UK a "clean energy superpower". If Keir Starmer is to become our next PM, this level of ambition and policy continuity...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

  • Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
  • Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
  • Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

 

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Login

More on Work

Net zero will transform the UK economy - our map reveals the most vulnerable places
Work

Net zero will transform the UK economy - our map reveals the most vulnerable places

The most vulnerable places are, overwhelmingly, the same places that suffered industrial decline in the 1980s, according to research by Ed Atkins and Sean Fox from the University of Bristol

Ed Atkins and Sean Fox, University of Bristol
clock 26 February 2026 • 6 min read
'Hard to fill': How engineering skills shortages pose a threat to the green economy
Work

'Hard to fill': How engineering skills shortages pose a threat to the green economy

Workforce 2030: Widening skills gap threatens to undermine government housebuilding, clean energy, warm homes, and net zero ambitions, warns Engineering & Building Services Skills Alliance

Michael Holder
Michael Holder
clock 24 February 2026 • 6 min read
Can Scotland learn from past mistakes to deliver a 'just transition' for its industrial base?
Work

Can Scotland learn from past mistakes to deliver a 'just transition' for its industrial base?

Scotland's Just Transition Commission warns policymakers in Holyrood and Westminster that 'there is no just path to net zero through deindustrialisation'

Michael Holder
Michael Holder
clock 19 February 2026 • 9 min read