'Green product scarcity' is looming: How can businesses remove the cleantech bottleneck?

Michael Holder
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The Hybrit pilot green steel hydrogen plant in Sweden | Credit: SSAB
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The Hybrit pilot green steel hydrogen plant in Sweden | Credit: SSAB

World Economic Forum and Boston Consulting Group warn that despite growing demand for green products, supply chain risks pose a major threat to the net zero transition

Not so long ago, the development of the many critical green technologies that could provide viable alternatives to high carbon incumbents and deliver a net zero transition was regarded more in hope than...

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