Engineers warn climate adaptation is vital to UK's economic health

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Report warns UK risks infrastructure 'cascade failure' without investment in climate resilience

The UK could prosper as an attractive and low risk location for businesses in the coming decades, but only if it acts now to importve the resilience of its infrastructure to the impacts of climate change....

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