CBI: Members are 'on-board' with green growth

James S Murray
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Dr Matthew Brown outlines the CBI’s top green priorities for 2012 as the business group steps up calls for a stable and ambitious policy environment

Dr Matthew Brown is not your typical business lobbyist. For a start, he has a PhD in theoretical physics from Cambridge, making him that rarest of people: a scientist working in the world of business....

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