Why UK businesses should team up on a collective offsetting fund

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A UK Collective Offsetting Fund would enable firms to pool investment in high-integrity rewilding, retrofitting and direct air capture projects at home, argues BusinessLDN's Ioanna Mytilinaiou

Amid a flurry of announcements from the new government in recent weeks, you could be forgiven for missing plans from the Chancellor Rachel Reeves to increase returns on investments made by the £360bn Local...

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