Debate in UK over benefits of green economy

  • 12 years ago
The economy regularly gets in the way of climate change action as green initiatives give way to budget restraints.

In the UK, environmentalists say the future for the Britain should include hundreds of wind turbines - creating free and clean energy well into the future as well as stimulating the economy.

But its government has suggested that cutting carbon emissions would threaten jobs instead.

Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports from northeastern England.