Existing technologies hold key to climate change strategy

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McKinsey study warns that obsession with next generation clean technologies is obscuring the effectiveness of existing green solutions

The fixation with the development of potentially ground breaking low carbon technologies has understandably become a central feature of the climate change debate, but according to a major new report from...

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