TV Dragon Deborah Meaden and around 250 representatives from renewable energy companies, trade associations, environment and development charities gathered outside the Treasury yesterday to call on David Cameron to step in, green our electricity, and get all parts of his Government to start taking the green economy seriously.
The action, led by the Stop Climate Chaos (SCC) Coalition of organisations including Friends of the Earth, RSPB and Oxfam, is inspired by the iconic Saatchi & Saatchi 'Labour isn't working' advert used by the Conservative Party in 1979.

The groups went on to Downing Street to hand in a joint letter - signed by 55 signatories and copied to Chancellor George Osborne - calling on the Prime Minister to stand by the Climate Act he supported in opposition and step in to ensure his government doesn't lock the UK into decades of polluting fossil fuels.

But in order to ensure the future of the green economy - and to help to prevent dangerous climate change - the groups say the Government needs to be bolder and clearer in its policies. They are calling on the Government to listen to its official advisor the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) by including a 2030 target in the forthcoming Energy Bill to give renewable energy investors the reassurance they are seeking to invest in Britain.

They are also calling on the Prime Minister to show his commitment to tackling climate change by including emissions from shipping and aviation in the Climate Act in 2012 - as recommended by the CCC earlier this year.

Dragons' Den entrepreneur Deborah Meaden said: 'Greening our economy is a financial investment in our future - low-carbon is where business is going and it's where the jobs will be. But companies are only going to invest in clean British energy if they're sure the Government won't pull the rug out from under their feet - that's why there needs to be a target in the Energy Bill to clean up our electricity by 2030.'

Friends of the Earth Executive Director Andy Atkins added: 'The Energy Bill is the biggest test yet for the self-styled 'greenest government ever' - it must include a target to green our electricity by 2030. David Cameron needs to step in to prevent the Chancellor's costly and polluting dash for gas, and listen to senior politicians, businesses and the public by making clean British energy the powerhouse of our economy. Developing more of our electricity from the wind, sun and sea will create thousands of jobs in Britain and help to tackle rising fuel bills in the future.'