When we politicise climate change, we fail British entrepreneurs

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Support must be ramped up for clean technology entrepreneurs whose innovations will grow the economy and fuel the transition to net zero, writes Carbon 13's Michael Langguth

In today's political theatre, we are seeing climate issues placed at the centre of the electoral battlefield, from the government's recent roll back of key climate policies to the controversy around the...

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