For businesses, climate adaptation is no longer a dirty word - it's survival

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From risk assessments to investments in water, waste and energy efficiency, there are a number of ways businesses can make themselves less vulnerable to climate impacts

It wasn't long ago that adaptation was tantamount to surrender in the climate world, an assumption that bracing for bleak climate realities was an admission of the failure to mitigate them. Writing...

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