Updated: UK launches environmental risk research centre

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Defra and Cranfield business school team up to develop climate change risk best practices

The government has teamed up with Cranfield University to launch a new research centre dedicated to assessing environmental risks and the threats posed to the UK by natural disasters. The new Centre...

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