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Business Weekly Archive: Clean Coal, Drug Companies and Kabul Property

05/12/2009

Clean Coal, Drug Companies and Kabul Property

BBC World Service - Business Weekly Archive, Clean Coal, Drug Companies and Kabul Property

Can coal clean up its act? Will technology save the world?

Can coal clean up its act? And will technology ride to the rescue of the planet? Plus, do drug companies always tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

Cleaning up its act - can the coal-fired power industry ever capture enough carbon?Also, the sceptical environmentalist, Professor Bjørn Lomborg, gives us his views. Plus, do drug companies always tell us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Dr Martin MacKay, who's in charge of Pharmatherapeutics Research and Development at the global giant Pfizer provides some answers. And pockets of normality in the midst of chaos - Richard Scarth, who founded a property company in Kabul, gives his take on doing business in war-torn Afghanistan.

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