Government attaches climate conditions to Celsa Steel emergency loan

Cecilia Keating
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However, government declines to provide further details on precise nature of climate and net zero targets attached to firm's rescue support

The government has agreed to provide an emergency loan to Celsa Steel with a string of unspecified climate change and net zero target conditions attached, as Ministers bid to help the struggling metals...

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