Low carbon growth 'imperative', Vince Cable tells Future South Conference
The growth of the South’s low carbon economy must ‘remain an imperative’ despite the uncertainties of Brexit and weak sterling, a major conference on green business has heard.
Former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable told the annual Future South event that companies and organisations needed to have environmental sustainability in mind as a long-term strategy.
Speaking to an audience of 200 businesses leaders, technologists, academics and local authority representatives, Sir Vince said: "Politicians come and go but a long-term commitment to invest in the green economy must remain an imperative whatever our government and whatever trading relationships we have. We shouldn’t be deflected from that."
The conference, at Winchester Guildhall, brought together recipients of green growth grants, loans and other funding channeled through the Future South partnership and Greentech South, the UK’s first dedicated ‘environment and energy cluster’.
Marine South East's Simon Powell was a member of the panel session that introduced Blue Growth Opportunities at the conference. Simon spoke about Marine South East's work with E.ON, the Sussex Wind Energy online supplier portal and opportunities in the Blue Economy for SMEs.
The conference was sponsored jointly by Hampshire Chamber of Commerce, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, Crossprint and Bouygues UK.
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