UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown today unveiles a program of investment in new technologies and low-carbon projects and public works to ease the pain of recession by creating up to 100,000 jobs, according to The Observer. The prime minister promises to use public money not only to create short-term jobs, but also to build a low-carbon economy for the future. The plans will be used to tackle climate change, by means of investments in eco-friendly projects such as electric cars and wind and wave power. Brown claimed his green plans would be bigger than Barack Obama’s planned multi-billion-dollar “Green New Deal”, relative to the size of Britain’s economy. Read the full article at www.energy-enviro.fi