UK risks green leadership as energy firms consider moving investment abroad

The UK is falling behind other countries in the international race to become the most investable market for low-carbon energy, according to 81 per cent of large UK energy companies polled in a new report published by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association.

UKSIF’s Financing the Future: Energy report, which surveyed decision makers across the UK energy sector, revealed that 63 per cent of companies have already moved, or plan to move, investments out of the UK to a market more supportive of their sustainability goals.