Carbon Trust: Finance directors underestimating energy efficiency returns

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Study finds businesses are wasting up to £1.6bn a year by failing to embrace efficiency measures

Major businesses are wasting at least £1.6bn annually because they continue to undervalue the financial returns gained from investing in energy efficiency. That is the conclusion of a paper published...

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