Conservatives to centralise green tech funds

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George Osborne announces that Lord Stern will oversee new centralised green investment fund

The Conservatives will centralise government financial support for green technologies into a single fund, and have managed to convince Gordon Brown's former climate change advisor Lord Stern to oversee...

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