Green businesses shocked at UK PM’s plans to slash environmental guidance
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans to make it easier and cheaper for businesses to meet environmental obligations by slashing 80,000 pages of environmental guidance, which he believes will save businesses GBP 100 million per year.
While organisations like the Home Builders Federation have welcome this, organisations like the UK Green Buildings Council condemn this announcement with CEO Paul King calling the move “utterly reprehensible.” He also said: “It is the same poisonous political rhetoric from Number 10, devaluing environmental regulation in a slash-and-burn manner. These words are not only damaging and irresponsible, but misrepresent the wishes of so many modern businesses, both large and small.”
Moreover, Mads Jensen, ceo of Sefaira, a UK-based company that specialises in cloud-based computing solutions for sustainable building design has said that “if our ambition is to establish UK leadership in the low carbon space, then I am not sure if this latest announcement is helpful. I actually think it could end up hurting rather than helping British export businesses and the British economy”.
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