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Billions are pouring into the enterprise of decarbonisation

Billions are pouring into the business of decarbonisation

“NERDS WILL invent the future,” declared Vinod Khosla in 2010. The venture capitalist was not talking about the sort of nerds responsible for e-commerce sites, marketplace apps or social-media platforms. Rather, his speech, delivered at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), was intended to inspire brilliant engineers and scientists to pursue climate-related innovation. The “clean

No 10 explores ‘Crown Consultancy’ to stem billions going to personal companies

No 10 explores ‘Crown Consultancy’ to stem billions going to private firms

Boris Johnson’s government is tacitly working to create its own in-house consultancy, called Crown Consultancy, to reduce reliance on high-profile private sector companies.The idea, spearheaded by Efficiency Secretary Theodore Agnew and championed by Downing Street advisor Dominic Cummings, would bring smart officials and graduates together in a new department to improve policy implementation across Whitehall.“There