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“Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge”

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Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010. He was the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007 and a key figure in the Labour government. Born on February 20, 1951, and deceased on March 19, 2010, Brown was a significant political figure in the UK. more

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