Top government adviser warns of "four Katrinas in one year"

James S Murray
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Jonathon Porritt urges businesses to prepare for catastrophic "climate induced shocks" on the scale of four Hurricane Katrinas in one year

Jonathon Porritt, chair of the Sustainable Development Commission and one of the government's top environmental advisers, has today warned we are entering an era of catastrophic climate shocks in which...

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