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Slow Money for Soft Energy: Lessons for Energy Finance from the Slow Money Movement

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This study was supported by a EPSRC Supergen grant.

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Kock, B.E. Slow Money for Soft Energy: Lessons for Energy Finance from the Slow Money Movement. AMBIO 41, 900–903 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-012-0329-7

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