Nigel Farage and Reform are a reaction, not an aberration: The green economy must take note

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Framing climate action as risk management, or green growth as economic inevitability, no longer cuts through alone - net zero has to be lived, proven, localised and tangible, writes Apella Advisors' Andrew Brown

For years, we in the green economy have operated with the unspoken confidence of a movement on the right side of history. Net zero targets, once controversial, became orthodoxy. ESG, once marginal, became...

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