{"id":21690,"date":"2017-04-24T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T23:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=21690"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:37:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:37:06","slug":"lcgs","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/publication\/lcgs\/","title":{"rendered":"UK export opportunities in the low-carbon economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><p>This policy brief outlines the opportunities and threats to trade in low-carbon goods and services in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Headline issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UK firms must be able to compete in the low-carbon global economy of the future.<\/li>\n<li>The UK is currently devising an Industrial Strategy that aims to cultivate world-leading sectors that encourage trade and investment. Low-carbon exports must be a part of this.<\/li>\n<li>As countries implement their Paris pledges, there will be expanding export opportunities for the UK and other countries for low-carbon goods and services &ndash; a market potentially worth &pound;1.0&ndash;1.8 trillion a year by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>The UK&rsquo;s current strengths lie in high-value services and areas where it is an effective low-carbon innovator such as electric motors, electricity distribution and domestic appliances.<\/li>\n<li>Threats to the UK&rsquo;s current areas of comparative advantage come from cleaner competitors such as Germany and Japan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are six steps the government can take now to help UK firms become global leaders in low-carbon trade:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The <strong>Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)<\/strong> should make low-carbon research, innovation and skills a cross-cutting issue of the Industrial Strategy, in order to cultivate world-leading sectors that encourage trade and investment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>BEIS<\/strong> should devise an effective Clean Growth Plan, consistent with the fifth carbon budget, which allows UK firms to develop expertise for the low-carbon economy, exploit &lsquo;home market effects&rsquo; and become competitive in the global marketplace.<\/li>\n<li><strong>BEIS<\/strong> needs to carry out more analysis on low-carbon services and assess the opportunities for leveraging the UK&rsquo;s existing advantage in high-value services.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Department for International Trade (DIT)<\/strong> should make low-carbon goods and, in particular, services a cornerstone of the UK&rsquo;s international trade strategy post-Brexit.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>DIT<\/strong> should secure a strong plurilateral Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) to support free trade in low-carbon goods, complemented by bilateral deals on key sectors not covered by EGA.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Foreign and Commonwealth Office<\/strong>, <strong>Department for International Development<\/strong> and <strong>BEIS<\/strong> are implementing the UK&rsquo;s commitment to help developing countries in their low-carbon transition. Their efforts could be coordinated with those of the <strong>DIT <\/strong>to advance that transition and create new low-carbon markets.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The analysis in this brief builds on discussions from an ESRC-sponsored workshop on how the UK can capitalise on global opportunities for low-carbon goods and services. 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