Environment Agency calls for Green Industrial Regulation

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The Chair of the Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd, has delivered a speech at an event hosted by the Aldersgate Group, calling for strong Green Industrial Regulation to tackle climate change and lead the Green Industrial Revolution. Howard Boyd stated that the Agency has begun to operate the new UK Emissions Trading Scheme, outlined the progress the Agency has made in the last 14 years to reduce their own emissions, and set out the benefits and the need of environmental regulation for tackling climate change, while aiding global business growth and development. Howard Boyd highlighted that environmental regulation ‘can support profitable green industry here and demonstrate market effectiveness everywhere, so that no country gets left behind in this century of climate opportunity’, but warned that change will not be lasting if the ‘polluter is not made to pay’.