Demand for green executives keeps rising

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Specialist recruitment agencies cashing in as number of sustainability jobs increases 20 per cent over 2010

UK employment in environmental and sustainability roles has bucked the national recruitment slowdown, growing by a fifth over 2010, according to new figures from green recruitment agency Acre. The company...

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