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+ Leading environmental fund management group Foresight has an objective of 20 per cent compound annual net return to investors with its environmental infrastructure fund.
+ The UK government has committed to reducing the nation's carbon emissions by 34 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020.
+ The EU Renewable Energy Directive, which became law in 2008, requires the UK to source 15 per cent of its energy mix, including light, heat, power and transport from renewable sources by 2020.
+ According to 2009 figures, the UK needs to invest £30 billion in infrastructure for generating renewable energy, recycling and waste treatment over the next five to 15 years. Some sources quote much higher figures.
+ According to fund management group Foresight, the demand for renewable power is likely to exceed supply for the next ten years and, possibly, beyond.
+ Incremental increases in landfill taxes will take costs from £40 per tonne to £64 per tonne by 2013.
+ The Government has stipulated that the municipal sector needs £10 billion of new infrastructure to achieve EU Landfill Directive targets.
+ When the UK government published its White Paper in the summer of 2009, it said it envisaged the low carbon economy could create 1.2m jobs in a global industry worth £3 trillion.
+ The Carbon Trust believes that the UK could attract 45 percent of the global offshore wind energy market by 2020, delivering £65 billion of net economic value and 225,000 jobs by 2050.
+ Around a quarter of the world's wave technologies are being developed in the UK.
+ In 2009, the UK had become the world's sixth largest low carbon and environmental economy.