Will 2017's extreme weather prompt more companies to wake up to climate risk?

Michael Holder
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The US has suffered 15 separate billion-dollar extreme weather events so far this year, as Lloyd's bank chairman warns businesses and governments are under-insured against climate change

Hurricanes, floods, mudslides, the third series of ITV's Love Island - 2017's turbulent summer has been captured in disturbing media headlines across the world that, taken as a whole, read like a contents...

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