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 economyA green economy is a economy or economic development model based on sustainable development and a knowledge of ecological economics for the future. The plans will be used to tackle climate changeClimate change is a lasting change in weather patterns over long periods of time. It can be a natural phenomena and and has occurred on Earth even before people inhabited it. Quite different is a current situation that is also referred to as climate change, anthropogenic climate change, or ..., by means of investments in eco-friendly projects such as electric carsA car powered by electric power, with a high efficiency, could be powered by renewable sources of energy. and windWind occurs due to different temperature levels in the atmosphere (troposphere) which are heated up by the sun. A typical example are the trade winds at the equator where the sun is most powerful.. 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

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