Net Zero Britain: An unfinished symphony

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Why building a net zero emission economy inside three decades is a bit like writing and performing a symphony

The following speech was delivered as the opening keynote on the first day of the Net Zero Festival 2023. The reason we called this presentation 'An Unfinished Symphony' is partly because this is a...

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