30 October 2024

WWF Comment

For immediate release

WWF Statement on the 2024 Budget

Commenting on the 2024 Budget, Angela Francis, Director of Policy Solutions at WWF said:

"Rachel Reeves pledged to be the UK’s “first green Chancellor” but, despite some positive signs, investment in climate and nature isn't yet at the scale needed to fully earn that title.

We know that green investment is the only way to unlock sustainable and sustained growth, shield households from high energy bills, and restore our environment.

While we welcome commitments to new fiscal rules to enable more investment, further concrete policies will be needed to drive green investment and lay the foundations of an innovative modern economy, including on the future of nature friendly farming, which is central to making that growth resilient.

At the Spring Spending Review we must see increased ambition and green investment in order to seize the economic opportunity of the 21st century."