Climate change dominates worsening global risk outlook

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As new research highlights role of climate change in UK flood crisis, World Economic Forum Global Risks Report says failure to tackle climate impacts is number one global risk

Environmental risk has topped the influential World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks report for the first time since its launch in 2006, after failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation was selected...

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