The highly regarded UPS Europe Business Monitor, now in its 16th year of publication reports that 47% of UK business leaders believe that Europe should stake its energy future on renewable technologies. This compares with 38% believing that nuclear should be lead technology and only 15% for other sources.
If that's a surprise, in France, Germany and Spain,
the equivalent figures supporting renewables were even
higher at 60%, 63% and 68% respectively.
In fact renewables scored more highly than the UK in
every other of the seven countries in which business
leaders were surveyed, the overall average being 59%.
Does this align with public opinion?
Interestingly and unequivocally, the answer is YES.
The results of the Eurobarometer study of EU public opinion on a whole range of topics have just been published:
No less than 88% of the public in Europe (60% in the UK) believe that the EU should urgently deal with the matter of global warming and 89% agree (86% in the UK) that the EU should take steps to cut greenhouse emissions by at least 20% by the year 2020
Business leaders are matching their words with actions
