Growing greener: How to use values to spark small business action on the environment

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Sam Hampton from the University of Oxford is researching how to get smaller companies to cut their carbon

There are nearly six million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, and together their energy use produces enormous quantities of carbon emissions, contributing to climate change. The...

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