Is boom or bust the best for climate change?

James S Murray
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Experts are divided on whether recessions or periods of economic growth represent the best environment for green investments

Amidst all the hand-wringing last week over the news China had overtaken the US as the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide one fact that went largely unreported was that the change at the top of...

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