The Pre-Budget Report: green measures at-a-glance

James S Murray
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BusinessGreen.com offers its cut-out-and-keep guide to the Pre-Budget Report's green pledges

For the first time in years, the government will today, for fairly obvious reasons, publish a Pre-Budget Report that has not been trailed as the "greenest budget ever". But there is still expected...

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