Sustainable Growth

Empowering the economic development of the West Midlands whilst encouraging environmental improvement

Our target: By 2030, sales in the Low Carbon Goods and Environmental Services sector will reach £32 billion within the West Midlands.

Summary of latest findings:

• For the most recent year on record (2023/24) total sales in the West LCEGS sector were calculated to be £19.1 billion.
• Compared to 2022/23, sales in the sector have grown by £2.1billion.
• Growth over the last three years has increased exponentially; 6% in 2021/22, 8.4% in 2022/23 and 12.2% in 2023/24.
• Birmingham is the local authority with the highest total sales in the LCEGS sector, with over £4,000m annually. This is more than triple the second highest local authority which is Coventry at £1,246m.

Progress: We currently rate progress on achieving our target as:

Consult the latest roadmap report for more details on this theme, how the target was derived and further background and information.

For details of which of our members work on this topic, visit our Members Directory.

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