Where jobs could be created in Boris Johnson's Green Revolution

Boris Johnson has pledged £4billion to power the UK's Green Revolution, with a race to replace petrol and diesel cars and vans with electric cars in the next 10 years.

With a 10-point plan that focuses on offshore wind, nuclear power and cutting fossil fuels in aviation - the plan promises to create 250,000 jobs supporting those businesses that can help the government meet its target of cutting emissions to net zero by 2050.

Mr Johnson will meet with businesses later today to set out planned regulatory changes and discuss their contributions.

The Government also said new investment formed part of £12 billion mobilised for the plan, though Labour said only £4 billion of the funding was new and called for a much bigger investment in a green recovery.

So which sectors feature in the Green Revolution and can expect to see growth and investment in the coming decade?

Offshore wind

The plan is to produce enough offshore wind to power every home by 2030, supporting up to 60,000 jobs. Johnson said his ambitions will be powered by the wind turbines of Scotland and the North East.

Hydrogen

Creating the capacity to generate low carbon hydrogen for industry, transport, power and homes, and aiming to develop the first town heated entirely by hydrogen by the end of the decade.

Nuclear

The Government is offering £525million to advance large scale nuclear plants and develop the next generation of small and advanced reactors, which could support 10,000 jobs.

Electric vehicles

Accelerating the transition to electric vehicles, and transforming national infrastructure to better support the technology. Nearly £500 million will be spent in the next four years for the development and mass-scale production of electric vehicle batteries, helping to boost manufacturing bases including in the Midlands and North East.

The Prime Minister outlined new investment of £1.3 billion to accelerate the rollout of chargepoints in homes, streets, and on motorways, to make electric vehicles easier to charge up, and £582 million in grants for those buying zero or ultra-low emission vehicles to help reduce the costs.

The Government is to launch a consultation on the phase out of new diesel HGVs to clean up freight transport, though no date has been set.

Public transport, cycling and walking

Includes investing in zero-emission public transports and making cycling and walking more attractive ways to travel.

Jet Zero and greener maritime

There's £20 million for a competition to develop clean maritime technology research projects for zero-emission planes and ships.

Homes and public buildings

Making homes, schools and hospitals greener, warmer and more energy efficient, including a target to install 600,000 heat pumps every year by 2028. The Government said there is an extra £1 billion next year for energy efficiency projects.

Carbon capture

The ambition is to become a world-leader in technology to capture and store harmful emissions away from the atmosphere, with a target to remove 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2030, equivalent to all emissions of the industrial Humber.

An extra £200 million of new funding will go towards creating two clusters of carbon capture and storage infrastructure.

Nature

Protecting and restoring the natural environment, including planting 30,000 hectares of trees every year.

Innovation and finance

Developing cutting-edge technologies and making the City of London the global centre of green finance.

The UK has legal a target to cut greenhouse gases to net zero by 2050, requiring huge cuts to emissions and any remaining pollution from hard-to-treat sectors such as aviation “offset” by measures such as planting trees.

There is also pressure on the UK to set out ambitious action to tackle the climate crisis as hosts of the United Nations Cop26 summit which was delayed by the pandemic and is now taking place in Glasgow in November 2021.