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How is the Global Green New Deal going?

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China and South Korea have invested heavily in environmental stimulus projects. Other G20 countries need to deliver on their sustainability promises to save both the planet and the economy, says Edward Barbier.

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  1. Edward Barbier is the John S. Bugas Professor of Economics at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA. His book A Global Green New Deal: Rethinking the Economic Recovery (Cambridge Univ. Press) will be available on 27 April 2010. ebarbier@uwyo.edu ,

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Barbier, E. How is the Global Green New Deal going?. Nature 464, 832–833 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/464832a

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