Reflections on 10 years of the Carbon Trust Standard

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Carbon Trust chief executive Tom Delay looks back on a decade of business emissions reduction

Ten years ago, in June 2008 when we first launched the Carbon Trust Standard, the world was a very different place. In the House of Commons the draft Climate Change Bill had just received its second...

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