The UK is back as a global climate leader: Can it get the rest of the world to follow?

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The UK's enhanced presence, effort and ambition at COP29 was keenly felt by other countries and observers at the Summit, writes Beverly Cornaby from CISL's corporate Leaders Group

If there's one message the UK government wanted everyone to take away from their presence at COP29, it was: 'we are back'. The government announced its presence by making the UK the first of the G7...

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