A global clean tech race is underway - why does the UK seem to be sitting on the sidelines?

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The UK's plan to delay its green industrial strategy to the autumn is reckless, writes ECIU's Gareth Redmond-King

Subsidies to the left of us, regulatory freedoms to the right; here we are - stuck in the middle with policy uncertainty and limited investment. That is where the UK government's ‘green day' risks leaving...

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