Doha blog: Businesses' green agendas can move forwards despite lack of international deal

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Jane Burston argues that with the Doha Summit engaged in time-wasting, businesses are already leading efforts to tackle climate change

The discussions about the future of our warming world were yesterday being discussed, as the climate change talks reached their, supposedly, penultimate day. Since the beginning of the week there have...

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