It's the economic model, stupid: The Treasury is failing to grasp the severity of the ecological crisis

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The Chancellor Rishi Sunak's name is nowhere to be seen in the government's weak response to the Dasgupta Review, writes Green Party MP Caroline Lucas

You can tell how much weight Ministers attach to a report by who writes the foreword. In the case of the response to the Treasury-commissioned Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity, the Chancellor's...

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