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Can France build a clean tech policy?

Europe remains the champion of binding limits on CO2 emissions, but a genuine industrial step-change may be afoot on the other side of the Atlantic. Nicolas Véron comments on the challenges facing Sarkozy‘s government given the need to create an effective green industrial policy. Click here   to download this comment. This comment was also […]

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Europe remains the champion of binding limits on CO2 emissions, but a genuine industrial step-change may be afoot on the other side of the Atlantic. Nicolas Véron comments on the challenges facing Sarkozy‘s government given the need to create an effective green industrial policy.

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