Environment Secretary David Miliband and Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling will jointly chair a Commission of Environmental Markets and Economic Performance, to make recommendations to Government next spring on how to further stimulate growth in the UK’s environmental goods and services sector by tackling barriers to innovation such as regulation, finance, technology and skills.

This announcement coincides with the publication of figures by the Environmental Industries Unit confirming an annual turnover for the sector of more than £25 billion and predicting that this will increase to £34 billion by 2010 and £46 billion by 2015.

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