Climate Committee urges Scotland to prepare for warmer summers and wetter winters

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New report urges government to protect 2 billion tonnes of carbon of stored in its peatlands

The Scottish government will today be urged to bolster its preparations for warmer summers and wetter winters in the coming decades as part of a major new report from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC)....

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