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Shaun Kingsbury, UK Green Investment Bank

22 November 2013 •

Shaun Kingsbury, chief executive of the UK Green Investment Bank, urges companies to engage with institutions' new suite of green policies

Financial accounting and reporting has been with us since 3300BC with Mesopotamians using a clay tablet to keep track of workers' beer rations. A practical and useful purpose if ever there was one. Since...

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