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Green-backers: Countries making money fighting climate change

The world’s greenest nations that are reaping the rewards
China: renewables investment
China: renewables investment
China: lithium exports
China: lithium exports
US: renewable investment
US: renewable investment
Gabon: protecting rainforests
Gabon: protecting rainforests
Liberia: protecting rainforests
Liberia: protecting rainforests
Norway: renewable energy
Norway: renewable energy
Australia: renewable energy
Australia: renewable energy
UK: renewable energy exports
UK: renewable energy exports
Sweden: paid for other countries’ waste
Sweden: paid for other countries’ waste
Scotland: renewable energy exports
Scotland: renewable energy exports
India: exporting solar power
India: exporting solar power
Iceland: exporting geothermal power
Iceland: exporting geothermal power
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The world’s greenest nations that are reaping the rewards

Often, actions that help the environment are pitted against those that boost the economy, as if there’s a trade off between being green and making money. Yet as these examples go to show, that doesn’t always have to be the case. From selling their excess renewable energy to earning money from protecting their rainforests, here are the world’s green-backers profiting from measures against climate change.
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Frances Carruthers

02 December 2019

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