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Whitehall needs to set itself a 'net zero test'

Gareth Redmond-King, WWF

04 August 2020 • 5 min read

WWF's Gareth Redmond-King argues that the crucial upcoming Autumn Budget and Spending Review has to deliver on promising 'green recovery' rhetoric

If we were living in normal times, we would be less than four months away from COP26 in Glasgow now. British diplomats, the UK COP presidency team and Ministers would have been in a whirl of frenetic influencing...

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