With industry representing nearly a quarter of UK emissions, the Government has published the Industrial Decarbonisation & Energy Efficiency Roadmap Action Plans to help industrial sectors decarbonise and improve their energy efficiency.
The Action Plan for the Food and Drink industry was published alongside the Clean Growth Strategy and builds on the conclusions set in the 2015 “Food and Drink Sector – Industrial Decarbonisation and Energy Efficiency Roadmap to 2050.”
This voluntary plan aims to support existing cross sector and company commitments and actions to address the clear challenges of improving energy use productivity and decarbonisation. It also recognises the importance of improving competiveness, growth and productivity in, what is, the UK’s largest manufacturing sector.
In addition, the Action Plan has identified a number of specific opportunities for the sector in innovation, skills, the use of state of the art technology and on ‘building in’ energy efficiency and decarbonisation at the process design stage. When taken forward, and backed with the appropriate resources, these actions will make a substantive contribution to emissions reductions and improve energy use productivity.