We need a Green Bank of England
We should empower our central bank to go further in steering capital flows towards the low-carbon economy, argues Positive Money's executive director Fran Boait
The UK government's green finance strategy announced last month is a welcome start, but gives insufficient urgency to the need to rapidly decarbonise the UK's financial system, which is currently driving...
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