'Climate heroes': Government urged to launch green skills 'charm offensive'

James Murray
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'Climate heroes': Government urged to launch green skills 'charm offensive'

New study from Social Market Foundation warns of urgent need to recruit and train an 'army of plumbers' to deliver on the UK's heat pump goals

The government should launch a campaign to recruit and train a generation of 'climate heroes' that can help install the clean technologies that will be critical to boosting the UK's energy security and...

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