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How a green economy can promote growth

This blog was first published by the Environmental Journal. The UK’s economy grew by 1.7 per cent in 2017, buoyed up by the first synchronised bout of global growth
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Green Brexit? Not unless the prime minister stands up to her grey ministers

The Daily Telegraph is reporting what has been an open secret for some weeks: senior Cabinet ministers are sabotaging the government’s promise of a “green Brexit”. Before the EU forced
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A future for farming in National Parks

This article was originally published by the Campaigns for National Parks, and was written by David Corrie-Close, a Lake District farmer at the Horned Beef company. When I was
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Has the UK really been held back by the EU on waste and resources?

Last week’s anniversary of the triggering of Article 50 was marked, as you’d expect, by many column inches and much airtime, including a BBC Radio 4 programme that caught our
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Let’s not lose sight of the big picture: “green Brexit” is impossible without force of law

A year on from the prime minister’s letter invoking Article 50, the Brexit hourglass is now half full, or half empty depending on your political disposition. Optimist or pessimist, Leaver
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The wait is (kind of) over for a UK bottle deposit scheme

It’s been almost six months since Michael Gove made an unofficial announcement that England would soon benefit from some sort of deposit scheme, a system where a small fee is
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