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The coal industry is about to launch a major push to bring dirty energy to the world's developing countries, Kirsty Gogan argues that green businesses need a credible response

Marie Antoinette famously did not say: "Let them eat cake!" on the eve of the French revolution, although it has been attributed to her as evidence that she failed to appreciate the plight of starving...

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