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Brown lays out strategy for 400,000 low-carbon jobs

Tom Young

06 March 2009 • 3 min read

UK must move fast to take advantage of global race to become a green technology hub, says prime minister

Gordon Brown launched the government's new low-carbon industrial strategy this morning, laying out plans to create 400,000 new jobs and establish the UK "among the first of the new low-carbon powers"....

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