Cleantech Business News JanFeb18
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January / February 2018<br />
Foreword<br />
Happy New Year to you all.<br />
<strong>Cleantech</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>News</strong> aims to deliver<br />
interesting stories and enterprising features,<br />
on new and exciting clean technologies.<br />
The magazine for everything green!<br />
Clean technology is one of those subjects that<br />
just isn’t going to go away. The public’s interest<br />
in renewable energy and green technology is<br />
growing, in the quest for more sustainability.<br />
We hope you will take inspiration from the<br />
subjects and products in this issue.<br />
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This issue is a little later than I first planned,<br />
but this means you wont have to wait as long<br />
until to next issue – better late than never!<br />
Early January has seen my inbox bulging with delicious stories for our little<br />
magazine. In fact, there has been so much relevant content that I have<br />
sadly had to miss quite a lot out. It is becoming clear that we will soon<br />
have to extend our page count, but in order to do this we will have to start<br />
looking for some advertising. If you are interested in becoming part of our<br />
family and would like to advertise your clean, green products and services,<br />
then please get in touch.<br />
This issue was advertised as the EV Issue, and I had hoped to have a<br />
comprehensive round up of leading manufacturers’ plans for the coming<br />
year. But, despite my requests, only 2 companies came back to me with<br />
content for this issue – It will be obvious who they are while flicking<br />
though this edition, so please don’t think I am being biased in any way. I’ve<br />
read plenty of encouraging news about the future of EV, and I see the<br />
technologies are coming on leaps and bounds. It seems that Governments<br />
and councils could do more to facilitate the EV revolution, but there’s no<br />
denying that we are heading towards a greener & low carbon future.<br />
Don’t forget to check our website regularly, for breaking news and any<br />
stories that didn’t make it into the magazine.<br />
SimonBSmith<br />
Simon Beverley-Smith<br />
Editor, <strong>Cleantech</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />
in this issue<br />
Some of the articles & green issues in this edition.<br />
UK Chancellor stays plugged into the electric car<br />
revolution ...................................................... 6<br />
Smaller firms turn to sustainability for growth and<br />
investment ................................................... 10-11<br />
Barclays launches pioneering range of green Corporate<br />
Banking products .......................................... 18-19<br />
Global Coalition of states and regions surpasses<br />
landmark 200 jurisdictions .............................. 24-25<br />
EU Finance Ministers declare carbon pricing key to low<br />
carbon economy ........................................... 40-41
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