Are good intentions enough?

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Telling customers about your environmental targets is all well and good but, as Paul Thomas argues, they are meaningless if you do not know how they are to be achieved

Environmental issues dominate the news agenda as we grapple with one of the greatest challenges our world has ever faced, climate change. But it is important to remember that this concern is quite a new...

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