Is the UK squandering its green economy leadership?

James Murray
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Is the UK squandering its green economy leadership?

The CBI reckons the UK has lost out on £4.3bn of green growth to its European competitors, making bolder climate action an open goal for a Labour Party that is looking to woo business leaders

For much of the past decade the green economy has provided the government with a genuine success story with which to answer its many critics. Productivity and wage growth may have flatlined and overall...

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