Budget 2017: Green developments at a glance

Madeleine Cuff
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BusinessGreen brings you the definitive green economy guide to the final Spring Budget

A substantially slimmed-down version of the Spring Budget was released today, coming in at less than half of the size of last year's document and containing little mention of the environmental challenges...

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