Why the 'industrial sunbelt' is tipped to overtake world's biggest economies in the clean industrial revolution

Stuart Stone
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Countries such as India, Egypt, and Brazil are home to more than half the world’s $1.6tr 'clean industrial pipeline', spanning sectors from aluminium and chemicals to aviation and steel

Although China remains the world leader in clean industrial development, securing a quarter of the $250bn invested low carbon industrial projects to date, a bloc of emerging markets dubbed the new 'industrial...

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