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How cleantech could be our latest industrial revolution

I know that it might look like I’m jumping on a bandwagon, in the wake of Copenhagen, but I really do believe that this carbon reduction business has potential to be good business. Last week I attended a very promising event hosted by the Met Office and organised by the South West Regional Development Agency (responsible for the first Low Carbon Economic Area designated by UK government) and the South West Science and Industry Council. There were good speakers, most of whom were already developing products and breaking into the new markets which the low carbon economy is bringing forward. The delegates were an eclectic mix of public sector purse holders, academics, and businesses, small and large, generating turnover from inspirational new technology. (more…)