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The enemy within: Why the Ministry of Defence must battle its own emissions to protect national security

Cecilia Keating
Cecilia Keating
clock 06 May 2021 • 8 min read
The enemy within: Why the Ministry of Defence must battle its own emissions to protect national security

BusinessGreen takes a look at MOD's sustainability plans as Rand Europe publishes analysis setting out how UK defence logistics will be complicated by climate change

In late March, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) published a sustainability and climate change strategy that stressed the need for the UK's armed forces to be ready for global temperature rises of 2C to 4C...

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