When John Major (British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom  from 1990 to 1997) set up Britian's global warming strategy 25 years ago, the doom-mongers said it would ruin living standards. New research shows how wrong they were. 

UK has proved that Green Economy is progressive and successful.

As I am unable to share the link so I am just pasting the article published in 'The Guardian' newspaper, written by journalist Michael Howard. Its worth a read and worth an applause for the UK.

He says:

Just before the Rio Earth summit 25 years ago, John Major, in whose cabinet I then served as environment secretary, made a bold prediction: reducing Britain's carbon emissions in line with recommendations of climate science would not, he said, harm our economy: 'Our initial measures ... will bring a worthwhile economic payoff to the country, to business and to ordinary people.'

This was a controversial statement at a time when solar energy, for example, was a costly technology better suited to spacecraft than British rooftops. And indeed the argument can still be heard that reducing greenhouse gas emissions will ruin our economies – even that it will return us to a pre-industrial living standard.

A quarter of a century later, the approach that we took has been richly vindicated. As research published on Monday by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit demonstrates, in that period the average Briton has grown richer faster than citizens of any other G7 nation at the same time, his or her carbon footprint has fallen faster than in any other G7 nation. While it would be stretching reality to argue that Britain's economic success has been driven by its climate change policies, no one can seriously argue any more that our climate policies have generated economic harm.