Revealed: What businesses, MPs, and the British public think about climate change

Madeleine Cuff
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WWF poll reveals UK public is increasingly worried about effects of climate change in the wake of the Christmas floods, while most MPs believe government is not doing enough to tackle the issue

For many across the UK, the devastating flooding that has battered northern England over the last month has been an unwelcome taste of how climate change threatens livelihoods not just on remote Pacific...

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