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UK aims for a million green collar workers

The number of people working in the environmental sector is expected to top one million within the next twenty years - more than double today's figure of 400,000. British Minister for Europe Jim Murphy gave the environmental industries a pep talk as he and his French counterpart Jean-Pierre Jouyet hosted a meeting this week to look at how an sustainable future could go hand-in-hand with economic growth.