Net zero is an opportunity for Britain to prove itself a world leader in industrial innovation

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Net zero is an opportunity for Britain to prove itself a world leader in industrial innovation

UKRI's Bryony Livesey sets out the ways the UK's emissions-intensive sectors can work together to lead the green industrial revolution

The UK's major industrial clusters mapped out by BEIS in Scotland, Humberside, Merseyside, Teesside, South Wales and the Black Country, are formed of hundreds of manufacturers and energy producers who...

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