'This is a wake-up call': The green economy reacts to the CCC's climate adaptation report

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Out of control moorland wildfire on a Lancashire hillside, UK | Credit: iStock
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Out of control moorland wildfire on a Lancashire hillside, UK | Credit: iStock

Green business figures, politicians, environmental groups and experts react to the Climate Change Committee's damning assessment of the government's ongoing failure to boost the UK's preparedness for worsening climate change

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) today rebuked the government for its failure to plan and take action to adequately prepare the UK for the rapidly worsening and increasingly costly impacts of climate...

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