Businesses are leading on climate change, now government must follow

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John Alker of the Green Building Council reckons government needs to close the gap between itself and the leading green businesses

The reaction to last week's IPCC report has been interesting. Although there was an all-too-familiar spat about the view of an individual academic and the prominence given by some in the media to dissenting...

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