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History does not repeat itself but it does rhyme – WHEB

Seb Beloe considers the current political environment and what it means for sustainable technologies. He also introduces a new sub-theme in WHEB strategy's: climate adaptation.

Posted on Nov 03, 2023

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... It’s almost exactly ten years since then-Prime Minister David Cameron, was reported to have asked aides to ‘cut the green crap’. While much has changed since then, there was nonetheless a clear echo of Cameron’s frustration in the current Prime Minister’s recent speech in which he promised to roll back targets aimed at accelerating the transition to a net zero carbon (NZC) economy. As Mark Twain famously put it, ‘history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme’.

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