Report: Covid-19 stimulus packages already benefitting high carbon industries

Cecilia Keating
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As governments move from rescue to recovery phase, they should resist bailing out carbon intensive sectors without stringent green conditions attached, new report argues

Speaking at the launch of the Petersberg Dialogue climate conference this week, Lord Nick Stern from LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, and key COP26 advisor to the UK government, emphasised...

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