Action on the environment is too important to be used as a political football

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Nick Molho, Executive Director at the Aldersgate Group, asks if environmental action could inject some much-needed optimism into the general election campaign

Once the Autumn Statement is out later this week, the momentum towards the upcoming General Election in the UK will really gather pace. So far, the political and media discourse around the election has...

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