Green Business 2022: The new Silk Road

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In the latest in our Green Business 2022 series, ECIU's Richard Black envisages a world where clean tech has come to dominate, and Europe has been comprehensively outmaneuvered by a resurgent China

It's now just seven years since Nobel Peace Prize-winner Laurent Fabius brought down the gavel on the seminal 2015 United Nations climate summit in Paris; and it's astonishing, looking back, to see just...

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