Steelmaker Slashes Emissions but Faces Unfair Competition Abroad ; Director of Environment and Climate Change for Tata Steel Group, Cardiff-Born Dr Paul Brooks Explains Why Despite Failure to Strike a Global Climate Change Agreement at Copenhagen the Group's Corus Business in Wales Is Still Reducing Co2 Emissions

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CORUS workers are facing a double whammy: the economic downturn bit hard into the steel industry, but the crusade to tackle global CO2 emissions has had a massive impact on the industry too.

The Welsh Assembly Government is also grappling with both issues: we have an economic renewal programme which should describe how a future economic vision can be realised; and we have the climate change agenda.

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Steelmaker Slashes Emissions but Faces Unfair Competition Abroad ; Director of Environment and Climate Change for Tata Steel Group, Cardiff-Born Dr Paul Brooks Explains Why Despite Failure to Strike a Global Climate Change Agreement at Copenhagen the Group's Corus Business in Wales Is Still Reducing Co2 Emissions

But the goal of "sustainability" will be achieved when environmental protection is an integral part of the formula for economic competitiveness (and vice versa). That means the green organisations don't just survive, but are the fittest in the dog- eat-dog wo...

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