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By: Gregory Barker

Lord Barker is former minister of state for energy and climate change, and now executive chairman of EN+.

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  • The private sector can be the engine of the low-carbon revolution

    When Al Gore made An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, he pointed to the fact that the Chinese characters for “crisis” signify both “danger” and “opportunity”.  In the years since, the conversations around tackling climate change have often been framed by what industries and governments stand to lose in the immediate future by acting. Advocates have [...]

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