Theresa May’s government must increase its commitment to greening the country’s energy supply, despite the “distraction and disruption” caused by the referendum, the top energy official of the United Nations has urged. Rachel Kyte, chief executive of the UN’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative, and special representative of the UN secretary-general, said generating more energy from cleaner sources would boost jobs and the economy at a time of uncertainty, and help poorer people the most. “This is about bringing better services, better quality services and jobs to the communities in this country that desperately need it,” she told the Guardian. “The evidence was [under previous energy policies] that this can happen and we should go back and make sure that whoever ends up running the government doesn’t abandon that.”
Guardian 13th July 2016 read more »