Sources have told the Observer that Clegg – unhappy that the coalition could not boast more green achievements – had recently chaired meetings with ministers in "growing frustration that some departments were not taking their green responsibilities seriously enough".
None of the agencies who deliver green infrastructure have responsibility for facilitating the indirect or preventative health benefits.
Some people who are keen on "corporate social responsibility"—green investors, Catholic hospitals and the like think the new rules will promote transparency.
When millennials do business with a company, they're more likely than previous generations to care about the social values of that company: its social responsibility, green profile, and how ethically it does, or doesn't, treat its own employees and those of its suppliers.
So in Wales, it is Aynsley-Green who holds responsibility for criminal justice, social security and refugee issues - a situation the Welsh commissioner, Peter Clarke, has described as "daft".
Education will be beefed up under Greening, taking over responsibility for apprenticeships and higher education, currently overseen by the business department.
Europe already has a cap-and-trade system, and GE would like a more uniform set of rules across the world.There is no doubt that the greening of corporate responsibility rings a bell with many companies.
Moderates were annoyed by the ejection of Nick Hurd, Greg Barker and Damian Green from their responsibilities for civil society, climate change and policing; the loss of the septuagenarian Ken Clarke was a bigger, though expected, blow (see Bagehot).
Under the terms of Theresa May's limited suspension of collective responsibility, Greening will be able to continue expressing her discontent with the decision without actively campaigning against it.
