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24 October 2019 • 4 min read

WWF's Angela Francis reveals how the newly launched Green Innovation Policy Commission aims to help accelerate the development and deployment of clean technologies

Innovation has been a big part of the government's efforts to shift the dial on the UK's woeful productivity performance over the past ten years. It will invest £80bn in R&D by 2027 to catalyse further...

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